1810.] 
very ancient bucolic, which abounded 
in gross and offensive images,* The 
27th Idyll. which ts still more indelicate, 
is, by many, attributed to Moschus. 
It is unnecessary to repeat the com- 
parisons so often drawn between The- 
ocritns and Virgil. They are both so 
well known to classical readers, as to re- 
quire little or no additional ilustration. 
Virgil, in particular, is'so familiar even 
to the youngest students, that we. shall 
not take any separate notice of his 
eclogues, but proceed, in our next, to 
consider the amatory poets of anti- 
quity. iM 
Theocritus, with Pindar, editio., princeps, 
apud Ald. Venet. fol. 1595. 
apud Juntas, 1515. 4to. edit. 2d. 
Rome, 1516: edit. 3d. 
Florent. 1515. i 
Paris. apud Morell. 1561. 4to. 
———— HH. Stephan. 12mo.'1576. 
ab Heinsio, 4to.. Oxon. 1699. 
———— a Reiske, 2 vol. 4to. Lips. 1760. 
—————a Warton, 2 vol. 4to. Cr. and Lat. 
Oxon. 1770. 
a Walckenaer, Lug. Bat. 8vo. 1773. 
This edit. has only the first 11 
Idylliums. 
with Moschus.and Bion—a T. C. 
Harles, 8yo. Lipo. 1780. 
* Multum a reliquis aifferunt que 
eixoMixe sunt, in quibus major est incivilitas : 
utin guinto apparet, quod Idyll. singulare est, ° 
et in suo genere exemplum, antique nimirum 
Bexodies 5 ubi: nunquam feré sine obsceno 
sensu rixatur Caprarius. Ibid. 
—iiee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S I find that my communications 
meet your approbation, and as they: 
are derived from authentic documeuts 
relative to a valuable part of Europe lit- 
tle known in this country, but the very 
great advantages of which the emperor 
Napoleon justly knows how to appre- 
ciate, I send you, according to my pro- 
mise, an account of the celebrated salt. 
mines of Wieliczka, in Upper Poland, 
That they were of vast importance to the 
Austrian monarchy, is evident by the 
late treaty of peace between that power 
and France, by which the new-made 
vassal king of Saxony derives a great | 
increase of revenue from them > exclu- 
sive of the acguisition of territory in 
Fastern Gallicia, and a populous dis- 
trict round Cracow. To illustrate this, I 
subjoin an article of the treaty, dated at 
Vienna, October 14, 1809, 
“* Article 4. Wieliczka, and the whole of 
Montury Mae, No. 200, 
ene 
Account of the Salt-Mines in Upper Poland. 
553 | 
the territory of the salt-pits, shall belong in 
common to the emperor of Austria, and the 
king of Saxony. Justice shall be admini- 
stered therein in the name of the municipal 
power: there shall be quartered there only 
the troops necessary for the support of the 
police, and they shall consist of equal num- 
bers of those of both nations. The Austrian 
salt from Wicliczka, in its conveyance over 
the Vistula, and through the duchy of War." 
saw, shall not be subject to any toll-duties, 
Corn of all kinds; raised in Austrian Gallj- 
cia, may also be freely éxported across the 
Vistula.” 
EES 
Description of the sauy-M1nES in UPPER 
POLAND; (from MALTE-BRUN’s late 
PICTURE. Of POLAND, 
uene are two districts in Upper Po. 
and worthy of clanning the attention of 
the naturalist and geographer; the one is 
that of the mines between the Pilica 
and the Vistula, the other that of the 
-$galt-mines between the Vistula and the 
Carpathian mountains, 
The whole extent of the chain of the 
Carpathian from the north, rises into a 
grudual ascent, intermixed. with small 
hills composed of white clay, and some- 
times ot chalky plaster. © Underneath 
this stratum is found another, which 
consists of a fine soft pliable sand: next 
to this sand is a layer of sandy marl; and 
under this, and often in the middle of it, 
is fuund the fossil salt. 
From Cracow to Lemberg, this bed 
of sand is visible in the plain. On ase 
cending to the height of one hundred 
and fifty to two bundred feet above the 
Viszula, the argillaceous hillocks come 
mence; amongst which, wherever they 
make holes of any'depth, fossil salt and 
salt-water is met with: springs of sule 
phur and bitumen are common: in this 
tract of land are situated the two famous 
salt-mines of Bochnia and Wieliczkau,* 
~ According 
* The following are the most accurate de- 
scriptions of these salt-mines, arranged in 
chronological order. 
1. Am anonymous Account in the Philu- 
sophica] Transactions. Hamburg Magazine. 
vol. 4, Part III. 1760. 
2. Schober’s Physical Description, &c. 
Hamburg Magazine. vol. 6. Patt If. He 
was intendant of these mines, 
3. Memoir of Guettard, member of the 
Academy of Sciences. 1763. 
4. Observations, by Berniard, in 
nal de Physique. 1780. 
5. Description, by Hansen, 
the Foure 
inspector 
of salt mines. Berlin Magazine. No} I. 
Fart III. 
~The Plans known ‘to the public, are taken 
; a5 from 
