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nication would be opened between the 
Dnieper, or the Black Sea, and the Baltic. 
If the Oginsky Canal opened a communi- 
cation, 'by the Niemen, to Konigsburg and 
Memel, so the Muchavitzkoy, or the King's 
Canal, would have been of infinite more 
advantage to the then existing Republic; 
as the same convenient mode of conveyance 
would have been extended through the 
Vistula to Warsaw, and from thence to Elbing 
and Dantzic. This canal was already finished, 
and the upper parts of the Pina and 
Muchavitza rendered navigable ; but it then 
appeared that the whole was effected upon 
wrong principles; first, sluices were thought 
necessary; and, secondly, no proper exami- 
nation or levelling had been made of the 
country, in the line of direction of the pas- 
sage, which was principally through low 
and marshy ground, wherein it was supposed 
the water would accumulate, to the proper 
height; but it was found, that the water 
from these morasses, the sources of the 
Muchavitza, (or rather a branch thereof, 
Mochalovla,) has a descent, or fall, of thirty- 
seven feet to the Pina. It was evident, 
therefore, that, without the help of sluices, 
this canal would rather be the means of 
drying or draining the morasses, than of any 
