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During that season, some floats of timber, 
and a number of vessels, called karbasy, with 
about twenty or thirty barks, pass on to the 
town of Onega. This navigation is decreasing 
from year to year, and is, for the greatest 
part, on account of Government. 
In the River Onega fall the folloiving Springs. 
The Voloksa (the Upper). A great quantity of 
timber could be floated down this river; and 
even during the high water in spring, vessels 
could pass, though it is full of rapids and 
stones : notwithstanding, thirty or forty vessels 
pass it, of 300 to 400 pouds burden, with 
dried fish. These vessels come from different 
lakes, and go down by the Upper Fodla to 
the Rivulet Tzerevia, up which they proceed 
to the landing-place, from whence the vessels 
and cargoes are carried by land five versts to 
the Vo/oshkoe Lake ; through which they pro- 
ceed to the Lake Ken, and by the river of the 
same name to the Onega. 
Mosha, the principal river of those falling into 
the Onega : it is capable of being navigated, 
did the climate permit the country to be cul- 
tivated, or furnish the inhabitants with the 
means of subsistence by any branch of in- 
dustry. Down this river a vast quantity of 
Listvenishno timber is floated, the adjacent 
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