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APPENDIX, N“ H. 
Division of the Black Sea, Inland Navigation . 
The Dnieper is most certainly the chief 
river of all the provinces adjacent to the 
Euxine. This river is the younger sister of 
Volga ; and has its source near the same place 
with the above, and the Southern Dvina. It 
may be called navigable from Smolensk, if not 
from Dorogobush. Two very great obstacles 
render the navigation of this river inconvenient. 
First, flats, or rather moving sands, a cir- 
cumstance common also to the rivers of the 
North of Russia: from above Kiof, down to 
Krementchuh, they greatly incommode the 
navigation, during the middle of the summer. 
Near the shore, on both sides, are passages 
or channels, of considerable depth; but they 
are uncertain, as they frequently shift during 
the high waters. It is confessed, that there 
are no other means whatever to remedy this 
inconvenience, (the considerable quantity of 
moving sand contained by the Dnieper being 
taken into consideration,) unless a body ot 
pilots be established, divided into districts, 
to sound, and put beacons or directions in 
the proper channels, for vessels to go by, 
after the high water subsides; as is done in 
the Nor tli, particularly on the Svir ; and which 
