The history of Poland Author:Stephen Jones Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and having paffed by Bender, falls into the Eux- inc Sea at Bialgorod. SECT. III. LAKES. There are two confiderable lakes in Poland, viz. Goplo, in the ... more »palatinate of Brfeft ; and Bi- rals, or, the White Lake, which is faid to dye thofe who wafh in it of a fwarthy complexion. SECT. IV. AIR, OR CLIMATE. The air is cold in the north, yet healthy; but temperate in other parts of the kingdom. As it is for the moft part an inland country, the weather is more fettled, both in winter and fummer, than in places which lie near the fea-coaft. SECT. V. NAME ; AND, FACE OF THE COUNTRY. Poland is one large plain, whence it s faid to have derived its name; Polu, or Pole, being a Sclavonian word denoting a country flt for hunting. The only hills, indeed, of any confequence are the Carpathian mountains, by which it is divided from Hungary and Tranfylvania on the fouth ; there are alfo fome large forefts of pines and firs in Lithuania. The only fea that borders on Poland is the Baltic. SEC T. chapter{Section 4SECT. VI. SOIL AND PRODUCE. The country is in general level, and the foil fruitful, efpecially in corn ; hence the vaft quantities of grain that are exported thence down the Viftula to Dantzic, and fold to the Dutch and other nations. They alfo export large cargoes of hemp, flax, leather, furs, timber, piteh, tar, turpentine, hops, wax, pot-afh, nitre, and vitriol. The paftures in Poland, efpecially in Podolia, are rich beyond expreffion, and have given rife to a faying, perhaps a little hyperbolical, that one can hardly fee the cattle that graze in the meadows. The country, particularly about Lithuania, abounds alfo with mines of lilver, copper, iron, fait, and coals. The forefts are numerous, and furnifh timber in fuch quantities, that it is ufual...« less