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fiext he gives a Geographical Defcription of PolaftJ, 
its extent, Provinces, Towns, Produds, &c. As to 
the Towns, he fays, the greateft part thereof are Tim- 
ber built, and Thatch'd, the whole Number of Cities, 
Towns and Villages , amounts to near 1700CO, of 
which not above Twenty are Walled; gives a particu- 
lar Account of the Univerfity at Cracow, its Colle- 
ges and Learning, with the Churches and Monafteries 
there, aslikewile of the Salt Mine there, with the Ma- 
nufadure and Revenue thereof, amounting to Eight hun- 
dred thoufand Poli/h Florins yearly ; 'Tis obferveable, 
that in fome places of the Mine, the Vapours will take 
Fire from a Candle, fo that they dare not work there. 
He alfo tells us of a particular fort of Mama, gathered 
off" the Ground, of which they make feveral forts of 
Diihes for their common Food. Treating of Priiffia 
heihews their way of making Glafs : Speaking of the 
City of Thorn , he fays, they have in a publick Li- 
brary there, two of Cicero s Epiftles written upon Ta- 
bles of Wax. In the Province of Red Ruffia, on the 
Shoar of the River San, are found Trees Buried, ve- 
ry hard, and black as Ehony : Near the City Kiow, they 
ftew the Bodies of Pcrfons long fince Dead, and Pre- 
ferved in Caves of a Sandy dry Stone. There are feve- 
ral Obfervables touching the Liberality, and other par- 
ticular Cuftoms of the People^ as the remains of Hea- 
thenifh Superftition and Sacrifices ftill ufedjX'/z. by thofe 
of the Province of Samogitia, &c. for which we refer 
to the Book itfelf. 
Next he comes to fpeak of the Origineand Extent of 
the great Dutchy of Lithuania^ with the Defcription of 
its Towns, and Succe/Don of its Dukes. In Filna the 
chief 
