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with the Dnieper was thought of, but found 
totally impracticable, from the height of its 
shore, as well as its shallows. At Elizabeth, 
it has a sufficiency of water ; and by the means 
of twenty sluices, on the English plan, might 
be made navigable as far as Nicholaef, where 
the docks, magazines, &c. for the navy, are 
situate ; which port would be of the greatest 
importance, could a proper communication 
with the interior, by water, be established; 
but the difficulties, both on the Bog and 
Ingul, put an absolute bar to the project, 
and the Dnieper is its only resource. The 
passage from this river, through the Leman 
to the Bog, is extremely dangerous for vessels 
of the construction in use on the Dnieper, and 
perfectly impracticable for floats of timber. 
Another great inconvenience attends this 
port, its distance from the entrance of the 
Bos, an hundred versts, where almost every 
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wind of the compass is necessary, and the 
least gale exposes the ships to great deten- 
tion. The river being extremely broad, and 
the channel, or chief passage, nearly in the 
middle, with little water on either shore, 
towing becomes impossible for vessels draw- 
ing more than two feet and a half water. 
Ships are towed up by boats, with such a 
waste of time, that two voyages may be 
