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eminences, which of themselves produce no 
springs. The project was therefore laid by, as 
impracticable. 
The Taeabitza, Philipi, and Sisla; insigni- 
ficant rivulets, and of no use whatever. 
The Poventza, with an immense body of water, 
is a continued cataract, from its source, at 
the Lake Volga , to its estuary, at that of 
Onega. 
In Peter the First’s reign, a junction of 
the Lake Onega with the White Sea was pro- 
jected, by means of the river (the Poventza ), 
conjointly with either the Vigh or the Soumma. 
At the persuasion of some merchants, a survey 
was actually made in 1800. It appeared 
that there was a possibility of conducting the 
water of the Lake Vod/a, whence issues the 
Poventza, to the Lake Mateo, or to the River 
Telekina, whose source it forms, by means of 
a morass, at the foot of the mountain Ma- 
ceVa : and from thence by a circuitous canal 
of seven versts, to be dug round the Falls of 
the Poventza and the Vigh, to join the River 
Onega with the above-mentioned Macelga 
mountain. The Vodla Lake, being twenty- 
nine feet higher than that of Mateo, forms a 
most copious reservoir of water, (being the 
highest receptacle of this element belonging 
to the Division of the White-Sea Navigation). 
