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water. But as the trade is carried on in 
spring, during the high water, this inconve- 
nience is not so much felt ; and the like in 
autumn, when the barks return with cargoes of 
less weight, assisted by the rains then pre- 
vailing. At Yampole, on the upper part of 
the Dniester, is, as formerly, a kind of cataract, 
over a granite ridge; this is now cleared, 
and the passage made free for navigation up 
and down the river. The chief obstacle to 
trade on this river was the want of towing- 
paths, the establishment whereof is now under 
consideration. 
The Dniester, like the Dnieper, forms, at its 
estuary, a leman or gulph, three versts in 
length, and from four to six broad, which 
joins the sea by two different branches or 
outlets. This gulph is shallow, and will not 
admit of vessels drawing more than five feet 
water. However, some go hence to the 
Crimea and Constantinople. Last war, the 
Russian flotilla went through it, to the very 
walls of Bender. Some brigantines were built 
here by order of Prince Potemkin, which went 
to Cherson and Nicholaef. The shallowness 
of the leman, however, does not hinder a 
considerable trade being carried on to Aker- 
man, from Ovidiopole, situate thirty-eight 
versts from Odessa; which, properly con- 
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