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It is navigable for vessels not drawing more 
than two feet water, when fully laden : into 
it falls the Somina, which is even shallow at 
the wharf of the same name: at its upper 
part 200 boats are built, called tifenky, 
some of which serve as transports in this 
navigation; others are sent for sale to the 
Volga. 
The Gouin has some cataracts* but vessels go 
up and down this river. 
Tighvinka, from the town of Tighvin, to where 
it joins the Sash : it is sufficiently deep for 
the kind of vessels employed ; but from the 
town, to its source out of the Lake Oserskoe , 
it has either stony or gravelly bottom, and is 
more like a torrent than a river. 
Sash. During a whole century, a track was 
sought for, to unite the wharfs of Tighvin 
and Sominsk. Peter the First proposed 
doing it, by joining the upper part of the 
Tighvinka, through some lakes, with the 
Somina : no other proofs remain of any 
attempt to carry this plan into execution, 
but what are gathered from tradition, and 
the ruin of a house built by his order on the 
spot intended for the reservoir. Another 
plan, proposed by General Resanof, fixed the 
point of separation at the little Lake Krupino, 
the upper part of the Tighvinka serving as a 
