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against the stream, for the return of them, were 
ordered to be made in 1799- To facilitate the 
passage out of the Ladoga Canal into the Neva, 
against wind and weather, a new outlet was 
begun to be made, at Schlusselburg, the same 
year*. In 1798, a new passage was also 
effected at Ladoga. In general, the Canal of 
Ladoga, through length of time 5 , requires an- 
nual and important repairs. This canal is now 
continued from the Volchof to the Sasy "River, 
and thence called the Sdskoy. This work was 
entered upon in 1769, and three versts thereof 
finished ; and then abandoned ; and again re- 
sumed in 1799 2 3 4 . Great as the importance of 
the Ladoga Canal to the export trade of St. 
Petersburg, that of the Sdskoy is no less so, in 
consideration of the facility of conveying the 
foreign goods imported at St. Petersburg, and 
distributing them in the interior of the country. 
The chief object of these canals is, to avoid the 
Lake of Ladoga. From the River Sasy, mer- 
chandize is conveyed, through the River 
Tifenka, to the city of the same name ; a land- 
carriage of ninety versts brings it to the wharf 
(2) The new Outlets out of the Canal of Ladoga are, one at Schlus- 
selburg, and another at the town of Ladoga. 
(3) The Outlet at Schlusselburg was estimated to cost 117.U0Q 
roubles ; that at Ladoga , 71,000 roubles. 
(4) 240,000 roubles are assigned for this canal. 
The Saskoy 
Canal. 
