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APPENDIX, N° II. 
much to be wished, that the mode of construct- 
ing vessels now in use on the Dnieper were to 
be changed, and a better adopted; as the 
Dnieper ‘ bctidac are as weak and incommodious 
as the barks of Fyshney Voloshok. 
On the Dniester, the only difficult passage is 
the Fall of Yampolsk, which is dangerous, even 
at high and middle water: proper measures 
are adopted to clear away the stones; and a 
track, or towing path, is making for the returning 
barks. The nobility have made, this summer, 
an attempt to tow up vessels, which will be 
productive of vast advantages, not only bringing 
down the products of Podolia to the ports of the 
Black Sea, but affording an easy conveyance of 
Crimean salt by the returning vessels. The 
inhabitants of this province suffer greatly for 
want of this necessary article, which they 
chiefly procure from Moldavia and Galicia 5 , at an 
extravagant price ; and, what is more grievous, 
they cannot purchase it but for silver roubles, 
of the old coinage * * 3 4 , no other being current. 
two millions annually; and 17,000,000 inhabitants (besides the mili- 
tary and civil establishment, the families of the clergy and merchants) 
be supplied at low price. Jews have retailed salt in Podolia, &c. at 
more than a rouble a pond, or 36 lbs. English. 
(3) Moldavia and Galicia have only rock-salt : when brought to 
Odessa, it sells for 60 copeeks the poud. 
(4) From the reign of Peter the First, to the Prussian war, under 
Elizabeth. 
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Dniester. 
