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Nevegia. As before mentioned, this river is 
to be the new track, or the means of joining 
the Niemen and the port of Riga. Its lower 
part is already so navigable as to admit of 
ships and galliots frequenting the sea, but 
only as far as the town of Koydany : from 
this place it becomes so rapid, that sluices 
must be had recourse to, if the projected 
junction of the Dvina and Niemen is to take 
place. Of this new track, mention was already 
made, under the article of the river Buldera. 
The Vilia, another great branch of the Niemen: 
about a hundred barks frequent it annually, 
principally with provisions. The rivulets 
Svitonsha and Simiana fall into it ; through 
these, in spring, some vessels and floats of 
timber are conveyed. 
MERETZINKA,theLEBEDlNKA,andBERESINKA, 
totally unfit for navigation ; and even if ren- 
dered in some degree so, would never repay* 
the expense. 
S harr a is, of all the branches of the Niemen , 
the most favourable for extending the navi- 
gation. By means of the Oginsky Canal, a 
communication will be opened through it, 
with the rivers Yatzold, Pripit, and the Dnieper ; 
, and, consequently, a new track of water 
communication established with the Baltic, 
from the Ukraine , Little Russia, Volhynia, and 
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