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and thereby effect a safe passage from the 
Volga to St. Petersburg, by avoiding the Boro - 
vitzhy Falls. The report of Captain Perry, 
who examined the situation in 1711, was 
unfavourable with regard to the execution. 
General Villebois asserted having discovered 
a proper track; but, on investigation, the 
Senate rejected his plan, and adopted another 
of General Dedenef s, by which the track of 
Vyshney Voloshok was avoided. The intended 
new passage was to be through the rivers Kolpa 
and Sheksna, which are to be united by a canal of 
seventy-six versts, provided with thirteen sluices. 
To avoid the dangers attending the passage 
through the Lake Ilmen to the River Volchof, 
a canal, called the Novogorodski/, was dug ; 
through which vessels now pass, direct from 
the Msta to the Volchof. 
The River Volchof presents also some diffi- 
culties, having considerable cataracts : to do 
away the dangers of these, a passage was 
begun to be dug in the very bed of the river, 
in a direct line ; and of such depth, that vessels 
may pass with ease at the lowest water. The 
work was entered upon in 1798. 
Rivers falling into the Volciiof. 
The Volchovetz, Shoba, Ciioresta, Pisop.- 
siia, and Tigoda. Some half barks come 
