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water. Into the Medvitza fall the Yeskara, 
Kolishley, Karamish, Balanda, Tersa, and 
BurlucJc, having a course from thirty to a 
hundred versts ; and might be useful, but for 
the indolence of the inhabitants. 
Communication by Water between the Baltic and 
the Euxine Seas. 
At the conquest of Poland, a plan was dis- 
covered, in the Archives, by a Polish engineer, 
for joining the Dnieper with the Southern Dvina, 
by means of the rivers Oulla and Beresen. On 
verifying the project, it was found the most 
eligible of any yet proposed, and accordingly 
The Bere - ordered to be begun, under the name of the Bere- 
senkoy ° 
Canai. senskoy Canal', in 1799; and is to be finished in 
1805. By this new communication, the com- 
merce, not only of the White and Little Russia, 
but that of some other Southern Provinces, 
would be facilitated and encouraged. Sixteen 
years ago, it was in agitation to join the Dnieper 
and Dvina, by a canal between the city of Orstra 
and Babinovichy, and this was found practicable ; 
but the expense would be much too great, and 
the advantages resulting therefrom not equal to 
those of the foregoing plan. 
(l) The Polish-estimate amounted to 329,387 roubles, but was found 
deficient. £>00,000 were added to the sum ; whereof, in 1801,386,232 
roubles were expended. 
