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estuary is insufficiently deep to admit ships 
drawing ten feet at the lowest ebb. One 
branch thereof forms a pretty safe harbour, 
for at least a hundred vessels, of that de- 
scription. It is to be observed, that the Lake 
Figh, through which this river takes its course, 
is the great receptacle of water in these parts, 
from different rivers, issuing from small lakes 
in its neighbourhood, and is interspersed with 
a number of islands. The principal river 
falling into the Figh, is, 
The Sighish a, issuing from the Lake Sigh, 
considerable of itself, and Less intersected by 
cataracts than any in its vicinity. 
The Souma, very inconsiderable, full of falls, 
and not navigable : at its estuary is the wharf 
of Soumsk, which frequently serves as a depot 
for the tools and other necessaries for the 
Admiralty of Archangel, brought thither from 
St. Petersburg during the summer, by the 
Lake of Onega, as far as Poventza, and thence 
by the winter road to Soumsk, to be shipped 
the next summer for Archangel: so that no 
less than two years are spent in this con- 
veyance. This place does not deserve the 
name of a port, as, at low water, vessels of 
the smallest burden are obliged to lie in an 
open road, four versts off, which extent is 
perfectly dry at low water. 
