GALLIC I A AND LODOMERIA. 



EXTENT AND SITUATION. 

 Miles. Degrees. 



Length 320} C 48 and 52 20 North lat. 



Breadth 290 5 tWeen I 18 and 26 East Ion. 



Containing 37,000 square miles, with 105 inhabitants to each. 



Boundaries... .Gallicia is bounded on the north and east by Prus- 

 sian and Russian Poland ; on the south by Hungary, Transylvania, 

 and Silesia ; and on the west by Silesia. 



Divisions. ...This country, which is composed entirely of the pro- 

 vinces of dismembered Poland, is divided into East and West Galiicia, 

 the former consisting of the territory assigned to Austria, in the first 

 division of Poland in 1772; and the latter of the part added on the 

 final division and extinction of that kingdom in 1795. 



Eas; Gallicia is divided into eighteen circles or districts; viz. those 

 of Misiowitz, Ducla, Rseszow, Sanok, Sambor, Lemberg, Tomaschow, 

 Zamosk, B^iz- Brody Zioczovv, Mariampol, Stanislow, Zaleszik Lub- 

 lin, Cheim, Bial, and Siedlitz. 



West Gallicia is divided into the following twelve circles : Bochnia, 

 Sandtz, Przemislaw, Tornow, Cracow, Kielz, Konsk, Olkusch, Rado~ 

 mir, Ingul, R.idom, and Lanow. 



Face of the country, mountains, forests. ...Gallicia is in gene- 

 ral a level country, except towards the south, on which side it is sepa- 

 rated from Hungary by the Carpathian mountains. In some parts 

 there are wide sandy plains, and extensive forests and morasses. 



Rivers. ..The principal rivers are the Vistula, which, rising in the 

 Carpatnian mountains, traverses the country, and falls into the Baltic 

 sea near Dantzic, after a course of about 450 miles ; the Bug, which 

 divides Gallicia from Russian and Prussian Poland ; the Dneister, and 

 the Pruth. 



Metals, minerals. ...This country contains mines of iron, lead, and 

 copper, and quarries of marble. Near Olkusch are mines of silver 



and lead. The salt mines of Weliczka near Cracow are the y'^V- " 

 l i ^ ■ t- rr i- .^rueraniy cleciin- 



and most productive in Europe, affording a kb***- °?" . ' _ 

 ling annually ; though it i? J ^usma. Out of some mines at Itza, 

 ed'since thi^north-east of Cracow, are dug several kinds of earth, 

 ifeh are excellently adapted to the potter's use, and supply all the 

 r ountrv with earthern-ware. . , 



Climate, soil, rRODUCE.-Gallicia is that part of the late kingdom 

 of Po and?which is situated in the mildest climate, and of which the 

 soil is most productive. Except a few sandy tracts, it is extremely 

 fe i e both in corn and pasturage. It produces, plentifully, gram oi 



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