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APPENDIX, N“ II. 
Podolia. This work is of the highest import- 
ance in its consequences, as it will enable the 
inhabitants of these fruitful provinces to dis- 
pose of their products, which till now they 
have not had the means to do; and which 
circumstance has plunged them into that 
inertness of character, for which they are 
remarkable. The junction of these rivers 
will greatly facilitate the supply necessary 
for the Government depots of warlike stores 
on the frontier, from the Baltic to the very 
Dniester. The Sharra is already, in some 
places, tolerably navigable ; to wit, from the 
town of Slonima, to its estuary in the Niemen. 
From Stonima upward, to the Canal of Oginshy , 
improvement is necessary : above the canal, 
the river is absorbed in the vast morasses 
of that country. 
To the Division of the Baltic Inland Navi- 
gation belongs the Western Bugg, or Bog, as 
the chief branch of the Upper Vistula. Middle- 
sized barks, conducted by Podolians, and by the 
inhabitants of the Southern Galicia, go through 
the Bog to the Vistula, and thence to Dantzic, 
where they sell their merchandize at a little 
profit, and provide themselves with foreign 
necessaries, viz. salt, some oil, sugar, &c. for 
their return home. Inconvenient and circuitous 
as this track is, the amount of the trade is no 
