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was often spent in effecting a passage to 
Nicholaef, than was necessary to make a voyage 
from the leman of the Dnieper to Constantinople. 
Not having attained the desired point at this 
place, it was resolved to find a port for mer- 
chant vessels at another, that offered less 
difficulties in the establishment; and also to 
which the carriage of merchandize could be 
more easily effected by transports. The Bay 
of JIadgiby was pitched upon as fit for con- 
structing the Port of Odessa ; whose vicinity 
to Poland, Podolia, and Volhynia, made the 
choice more eligible and favourable, not only 
to trade, but also answering some naval pur- 
poses. The navigation is uninterrupted the 
whole year (not true) at this place. Magazines 
and store-houses are erecting for the goods 
brought from the Dnieper by water, not only 
here, but along the Dniester, for the products 
of Galicia and Podolia. 
Not above 300 vessels and boats go down 
the Dnieper to Nicholaef and Cherson ; but vast 
floats of timber descend for the Admiralty. 
This however is comparatively little, to what 
this commerce will amount to, when the Ca- 
taracts are cleared'. From Krcmentchuh, about 
(1) “ It will be observed, that the CataracU of the Dnieper, and 
Shoals in the Dniester, are the great obstacles to the interior com- 
munication from the Mark Sea: it is therefore most astonishing, that 
a nation, 
