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of Sominka; and from thence, by the rivers 
Tzagodotchia and Mologa, it is conveyed to the 
Volga , which supplies all the adjacent country. 
From the wharf of Sominshay, about 2,000,000 
roubles in value, of foreign goods, is annually 
carried into the interior. The deepening of 
some of the rivers belonging to this inland 
navigation has increased this branch of trade ; 
but the considerable land-carriage between the 
Somina and Tifin greatly impede its farther 
progress. The junction of these two last 
wharfs, by water, engaged the attention of 
Peter the First ; and proper measures for the 
discovery of the most eligible means were taken 
by Generals Dedenef, liesanof, and others, in 
1765 . In 1800, the examination was resumed, 
and the junction of the two wharfs found prac- 
ticable, by a canal on the English plan, adapted 
to the navigation of such vessels as are now in 
use on the rivers Tifevka, Sasy, and Somina. The 
sluices to be constructed on this canal are to 
have no more than ten and twelve feet of 
breadth, when opened. If the plan of those of 
Vyshney Voloshok were to be followed, they 
being thirty-two feet wide, a sufficiency of 
water could never be collected ; nor does the 
situation of the place admit of this mode of 
construction. By an Imperial ukase, the work 
was to begin in 1802, and conclude in 1804. 
