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Proma, which falls into the Sheksna. The 
vessels from the Volga to the wharf of 
Badoshha are there unloaded, and their 
cargoes carried fifty-five versts, by land, to 
the city of Vitegra, then reloaded into 
galliots, and by the River Svir conveyed to 
St. Petersburg. 
The rivers Kofgia and Vitegra are to be 
joined by a canal of five versts and a half, 
having thirteen stone sluices, with a descent, 
or fall, of six or seven feet. The plan requires 
only to be executed, to make this navigation 
completely safe. Peter the First had it 
already in view, but his demise put a stop to 
the work. The public-spirited representations 
(or rather patronage) of the present Empress 
Dowager, Maria Fedorovna, to the Emperor 
Paul, procured an order, in 1799, for a canal 
to be dug, and thence called the Mariensky, as 
a monument of her patriotism. 
The following Rivers fall into the Sheksna : 
The Louda. The lower part is pretty navigable ; 
and a number of barks are constructed on it. 
Ouloma and Slavenka furnish also conveni- 
ences for building of barks. The respective 
heads of these rivers approximate the Lake 
KoubensJcoe, out of which issues one of the 
principal scources of the Northern Dvina. 
