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cataracts 1 are perfectly cleared; about eight 
remain to be worked on ; and it is expected, 
that, from the year 1805, the river will be 
navigable ; which will confer inestimable 
advantages on the country, particularly in 
furnishing the ulterior of Russia with salt, 
which will render the importation of it by 
the Baltic unnecessary, and save great sums 
of money to the Russia -Polish provinces, 
which they pay, in coin, for this commodity 
in foreign dominions. Below the Cataracts, 
the Dnieper has a resemblance to the Volga ; 
though it is intersected by many islands and 
flats, which, however, do not much impede 
the navigation. The current in general there 
is not strong ; and admits, not only ol the 
use of oars for vessels going up, but of sails 
with very little wind. Its morassy shores, 
in some districts, preventing the use of the 
towing-line, it is necessary to establish paths 
for this purpose; as most certainly it will 
accelerate the return of barks with salt, silk, 
cotton, and other products of the Levant, 
(I) “ The work goes on slowly, and was not half finished at the 
end of the summer of 1805. A float or transport of timber, which 
arrived while 1 was at Odessa, had been two years in coming down, 
from the impediments of the cataract and above descent. 
Note by Mr. R. Comer. 
