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Souchona, perfectly navigable ; and a number 
of vessels go from Vologda to Archangel. 
It was supposed that it was possible to 
effect a junction between the Ouloma and the 
Slavenka; and, in consequence of a survey in 
1800 , some tracks were found that promised 
success. The object of this plan was, first, 
to open a water communication between 
St. Petersburg and the city of Vologda; and, 
secondly, to establish a like communication 
between Archangel and Si. Petersburg. One of 
these tracks led through a canal of five versts 
(to be made), with a fall (or descent of water 
of twenty-five in that space) through the Lake 
Blagov efzenslcoye (out of which issues the 
River Parosovitza, and falls into the Lake 
Koubenshoe ), Kemsi, VaserinsJcoe, Oulamofskoe, 
and Seversfcoc, and thence to the River Slavenka. 
The other track was nearly through the same 
lakes, but turned to the River Ouloma , which 
river must be first made navigable. 
The Yagretza; not navigable, and simply a 
small rivulet. Some barks are built on it. 
Pioma. This river formerly formed a part of 
the navigation from Novogorod to Archangel. 
From the River Sheksna, the vessels were 
towed up the Pioma, twenty versts; thence 
the goods were carried by land, forty-five 
versts, to the Lake Voge; there re-loaded 
