Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark; illustrated with charts and engravings . h, velvet, or ftuffjedged with fur; a fabre is a neceifary appendageof the drefs as a mark of nobility. They Avear fur-caps or bonnets, and buflvins of yellow leather,the heels of which are plated with iron or fteehThe dreis of the ladies is a fnnple polonaife, orlong robe, edged with. fur. The Poles in their features, look, cuftoms,drefs, and general appearance, refemble than Europeans, and are unqueftionablydcfecnded from Tartar anceftors. A Germanhifloiian*, well verfed in the antiquity
Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark; illustrated with charts and engravings . h, velvet, or ftuffjedged with fur; a fabre is a neceifary appendageof the drefs as a mark of nobility. They Avear fur-caps or bonnets, and buflvins of yellow leather,the heels of which are plated with iron or fteehThe dreis of the ladies is a fnnple polonaife, orlong robe, edged with. fur. The Poles in their features, look, cuftoms,drefs, and general appearance, refemble than Europeans, and are unqueftionablydcfecnded from Tartar anceftors. A Germanhifloiian*, well verfed in the antiquity of nati-ons, remarks, that the manner in which the Poleswear their hair is a ftriking token of their ori-gin. So eaily as the fifth century, fome nations,comprehended under the name of Scythians, hadthe fame cuftom. For Prilcus Rha^tor, who ac-conipanied Maximus in his embaffy from Theo-dofms II. to the court of Attila, defcribes a Scv-thian cliicf, whofe head was iliaved in a circularibrin f, a mode fnnilar to the prefent fafhion inPoland. * Mafcow. f Capite in rotundum rafo. Eeiorc. €.2. SALT MIXES OF V/IELITSKA. 149 Before we quitted this part of Poland, we vi-frted the celebrated falt-mines of Wielitika, ex-rcavated in a ridge of hills at the northern extie-niity of the chain which joins the Carpathianmountains : they take their appellation from thefmali village of Wielitil^a; but are fometimes calledin foreign countries the mines of Cracoy/, fromtheir vicinity to that city. Upon our arrival at AVielitfka we repaired tothe mouth of the mine *. Havino; faftened threefeparate round the great rope employ-ed in drawing up the fait, we feated ourfelves iaa commodious manner, and were gently let down160 yards below the firft layer of fait. Quittingour hammocks, we paiTed a long and gradual de^fcent, fometimes through broad paifages or gal^.Icries capable of admitting feyeral carjiagcij-abreaft; fometimes down fteps cut in the folidfait; which had the grandeur and comm
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