ALBANIA, a country of European Turkey, stretching along the coast of the Adriatic and Mediterranian seas, is very rugged and moun tainous, and has but few rivers of any note. Among the natural productions may be men tioned many species of oak; as the (memo's cerrix, which affords timber of good size and quality ; and the Valonia oak ((perms avilops), the acorns of which are used in dyeing, and supply an article of export from many parts of Turkey. Other trees are the chestnut, the plane, the cypress, the ash, the cedar, the pine, and the larch. The wild vine and the elder are also frequent on the mountains, and the woods and wastes nourish the Amphilo• chiau peach, the Arta nut, and the quince. The cultivated fruits are the olive, which might be rendered more productive by better care ; the vine, the pomegranate, the orange, the lemon, the mulberry, and the fig. The agri cultural produce consists of barley, oats, maize, and other grains, tobacco, and cotton; some portion of it is exported. Horses, asses, cattle, sheep, and goats are reared, and are sold to the Ionian Islanders. The milk of the goats is made into cheese, a small quantity of which is exported; and their skins serve to hold wine (to which, however, they impart a strong flavour).
Agriculture is in a lowly condition. The plough is of simple construction, and in time of harvest they reap their corn, though with little skill, and they never mow it. The busi ness of sowing and reaping is left to the women and to the aged. The young men fell timber or dress the vines. There are few arts or
manufactures. The Albanians export a con siderable number of capotes annually; and they produce some embroidery on velvet, stuff, and cloth, for which the country enjoys a better reputation than any other part of Euro pean Turkey; but this is the work of the Greeks of Jeannine, who are an industrious people, rather than of the Albanians.
The trade consists mainly in the exchange of natural productions for the manufactures of nations more refined. Oil,wool,wheat, maize, and tobacco, are sent to the kingdom of Naples, or to the Ionian Isles and Malta ; and sheep, goats, cattle, and horses, to the Ionian Islands. Cotton wool and timber are ex. ported from the Gnlf of Arta; but the cotton As brought chiefly from Thessaly, and the timber from ancient Acarnania, on the south side of the gulf. The manufactured goods which they export are--capotes ; gun and pistol stocks, mounted in chased silver, plain and gilt ; and embroidered velvets, stuffs, and cloths. They import coffee and sugar from Trieste; knives, sword-blades, gun-barrels, glass and paper, from Venice; gold and silver thread, for embroidery, from Vienna; French and German cloth, coarse and ill-dyed, from Leipsic ; and caps and a few other articles from various parts. The want of ready means of communication is a great impediment to traffic. Goods are conveyed by pack-horses, four or five of which are attached to each other by cords, and guided by one man.