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APPENDIX, N* II. 
the vessels pass into the Msta, shoot the 
Borovitzky Cataracts, and so enter the Lake 
Ilmen. 
Msta. The cataracts in this river, known by 
the name of Borovit'zhy, not only impede the 
regular course of this trade, but occasion 
great loss of property, and will ever be an 
insurmountable bar to the return of vessels 
homeward, or to the wharfs they belong to. 
Rivers fulling into the Msta. 
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Valdaica and Ciiolova are only navigable 
in spring, and even then very little. 
Oliver.. On this river are the principal reser- 
voirs of water for supplying the Msta. 
Beresaika and Kejika have sluices, or dams, 
for the same purpose. 
Velia, Soroda, Leda, Koloda. Some wood 
is floated down these rivers, during the spring, 
at the highest water. 
The Lake Ilmen. Besides the Msta, the 
following Rivers fall into it. 
Lovat and Tola; and the Yavan falling into 
the latter river. Through these rivers 300 
barks pass annually, which must cross the 
lake to get into the Volchof River. 
A project has been long in agitation, to 
unite the River Tola with the lake Seligher • 
