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less than four millions annually ; this is carried 
on from the wharfs situate in Russia ; viz. 
Ustilook, Kritnitz, Kladnef, Bengugh, Lilho, Brest, 
and Opalin. The customs are collected at Brest. 
Without doubt this traffic may be improved; 
but the question is, Whether it is advantageous 
to the Russian Crown and to its subjects ? It is 
difficult to prove that it is, as all the profits 
remain with the Elbing and Dantzic merchants. 
The only advantage accruing to the native seller 
is, that he has the opportunity of procuring 
foreign returns in kind, for his own products; 
but he never goes back with money. The mer- 
chandize thus procured, he cannot otherwise 
dispose of at home, but by barter for domestic 
products, with which he is again forced to go to 
Dantzic, to be disposed of there in the same 
manner as before. 
Rivers falling into the Buco or Bog, from the 
Russian side. 
The Muchavitza falls into the Bog at Lillian 
Brest, and is the only one worth notice, inas- 
much as this river serves for a part of the 
canal proposed to be dug by the late King 
Stanislaus Augustus, to join the Pina, one of 
the chief branches of the Pripit (belonging 
to the Dnieper division), with the Bog ; 
whereby a new track of water commit- 
