APPENDIX, N“ II. 
461 
When the Marienshy Canal was begun, in 
1 799 , the practicability of a circuitous inland 
navigation, round the Onega and Ladoga Lakes, 
was also examined into, to avoid passing any 
part of them : the first by means of the rivers 
Svir and Pltegra, the latter through the Sasy to 
the Svir. This last was ordered to be carried 
into execution in 1802, and its chief object is 
to facilitate the return of barks homeward. 
The canal from the Sasy to the Svir was or- 
dered in 1802‘. 
To make a communication by water, between 
the Caspian and White Seas, or the Volga and 
the Northern Dvina rivers, was in agitation in 
the reign of Peter the Great ; but the first 
survey was only made in 1785; and, as hardly 
any natural obstacle was found to oppose the 
execution of the plan, it was adopted, and a 
canal 4 begun to be dug, named the Northern 
Katherinskoy, . which was to unite two small 
rivulets, having a morass of an immense ex- 
tent for their common source, situate on the 
frontier of Permia and Onstnhk. One of these 
rivulets has a communication, by means of 
the Kama, with the Volga ; and the other 
with the Northern Dvina, through the river 
Project for 
circuitous 
Canals 
round the 
Lake La- 
doga and 
Onega. 
TheNorth- 
ern Kalhe - 
rinskoy 
Canal. 
(1) It is however not begun. 
(2) 600,000 roubles was assigned, and 100,000 expended ; but the 
war put a stop to the work. 
