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sixty barks, with salt, go already up the river 
to Smolensk, as well as up some of the branches 
of the Dnieper ; viz. the Pripit, Desna, Beresang, 
to the wharfs of Novogorod, Severskoy , Pinslc, 
and Borovitz. The salt is conveyed above 
700 versts by land, to Krementchuh, from the 
Crimea, by a great number of oxen. When 
the Cataracts are cleared, the land-carriage 
will be reduced to 1 20 versts, from the Crimea 
to the Bereslasskoy Wharf on the Dnieper; and 
the salt may be conveyed straight by water 
from the Salines of Kinburn. 
Branches of, or Rivers falling into, the Dnieper. 
A river of the Dnieper's, magnitude has na- 
turally many smaller streams falling into it; 
which are the more worthy of attention, as 
their banks and circumjacent country abound 
with vast forests of oak, &c. out of which 
hardly any timber has yet been drawn. Most 
of these rivers, particularly those falling into 
the Upper Dnieper, are already navigable, or 
capable of being made so, unless in such 
seasons of great drought when even the Dnieper 
itself is hardly passable. 
a nation, with the command of men that Russia has, does not surmount 
the difficulty. Greater exertions liave been made by Companies of 
individuals in England.” Note by Mr. II, Corner. 
