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canal, by building thereon seventeen sluices. 
It was proved, on examination, that the 
reservoir could not furnish a sufficiency of 
water for the canal intended to serve instead of 
that of Fyshney Voloshok ; and, consequently, 
the chief view to avoid the Borovitzky Falls 
was frustrated. But, on transferring the 
point of separation to the little River Volt- 
shan, it was found practicable to establish 
there a sufficient reservoir, not for barks, 
but only for such kind of vessels as are 
employed on the Tighvinka and Somina, 
because the Gorum and Somina are too defi- 
cient in water to admit vessels of the size 
of the barks. This circumstance prompted 
General Dedenef to propose the junction of 
the Tighvinka with the Lida, which was to 
form the point of separation by a canal of 
seventy-six versts, furnished with thirteen 
sluices, with iron chains, and of four or five 
gates, with a fall of water of no less than eight 
feet. From the Lida, another canal of seven 
versts was to unite the whole with the Kolpa, 
which falls into the Sheksna. But, on due 
investigation, it proved that the indicated 
places would furnish still less water than 
those pointed out by General Resanof. 
Besides, the line of direction proposed by 
General DedeneJ led, in some places, through 
