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GENERAL REMARKS ON THE PENINSULA

deal, which are floated from the upper diftrid of the Dniepr,and are fold at the rate of one ruble each.

The commerce of this place is carried on, either by way ofOtfhakof and Nicolaef, or from the Glubokinfkaya Priftan, towhich place the largeft veffels are navigated up the current ofthe river. Its exports confift chiefly of wheat, hemp, fail-cloth, and linen; and, if more wealthy merchants fliould fettleat Kherfon, it might, in the courfe of time, become a very im-portant place. Siberian ivory has alfo, for fome years paft,been fhipped from this port.

The communication from the upper diftricts of the Dniepr,would be far more advantageous to the commerce of Kherfon,if the cataradts, occafioned by the ftratum of granite by whichit is interfedted, and the rapid ftreams occurring in rockyplaces, did not interrupt the navigation of the river fromKaidak to the vicinity of Nicopol. Thefe cataradts, for theremoval of which the Crown has already difburfed, and is ftillexpending large fums, (though they have hitherto been avoidedby land-carriage,) admit only of timber being floated downthe ftream at high water. The number of fuch places, asare more or lefs dangerous, and fome of which produce aflight fall of water, while others have a rapid and confinedcurrent, amounts in the whole to twelve; namely, Kaidatz-koi, Sarfkoi, Lokhamfkoi, Svonetz (one of the moft con-fiderable); Knäginetz, Nonaffitetz (the moft dangerous, as itcannot be paffed by empty veffels); Volnyfh, VoronovaSabora, Budylikoi, Lytlhnoi, Tovohhanoy, and Volneey.—The traft of granite, which here conftitutes the rocky banks

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