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VIII. Account of a BOOK. 
The HiHory of Poland in fe^veral Letters to 
' Perfons of Quality , gi'z^ing an Account of 
the Ancient , and Prefent State of that 
Kingdom, Hiftorical, Geographical, Phyfi- 
cal, Political a net EcdcCidifiicaly c^c. with 
federal Letters relating to Phyfick^ Vol. I. 
To which is added a new Map of Poland. 
By Bern^ Connor, M. D. Fellow of the Royal 
Society^ and Member of the Colledge of Pby- 
ficians^ &c. London Printed for Dan. Brown, 
^c. 1 6^y. in %*vo> 
IN this Hiftory of Poland , the Author gives an Ac- 
count firft of its Origine; that about the middle of 
the Sixth Century, it came to be a diftind Nation,when 
as yet it had no Cities, no Money, or written Laws j 
the firft City was then Built by Lechus near the State 
of Brandenburg^ naming it Guefna; then treating 
of their Pohcy and Princes, which at firft were cal- 
led Duies^ he gives a particular Hiftory of all their 
Dukes and Kings , down to the prefent King Frederic 
Auguftus. Thefe he divides into Four Clajfes, the firft 
begmning An. fjo. ending Ah.S-^o. when the Go- 
vernment came into the Families of Pirjlus and Jagello^ 
to 
