Geography rectified; or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ..As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at LondonIllustrated with seventy eight mapsThe 3d ed., enlTo which is added a compleat geographical index to the whole, alphabetically digestedThe whole work performed according to the more accurate observations and discoveries of modern authors . Volonia^ Hifpanis^ & Italis. La Pologne^ CaHis. Poland, Anglis. Tolojk^yPolis. Die Volen. Germanis. I. POLO NIA, or Poland, which was formerly but a part of Sar-matia, is now a
Geography rectified; or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ..As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at LondonIllustrated with seventy eight mapsThe 3d ed., enlTo which is added a compleat geographical index to the whole, alphabetically digestedThe whole work performed according to the more accurate observations and discoveries of modern authors . Volonia^ Hifpanis^ & Italis. La Pologne^ CaHis. Poland, Anglis. Tolojk^yPolis. Die Volen. Germanis. I. POLO NIA, or Poland, which was formerly but a part of Sar-matia, is now a Kingdom of as large extent as any in iLurope.^ Itis an aggregate Body, confifting of many diftind: Provinces, Unitedinto one Eftate, of whieh Poland being the Chief, hath given Name to the i Of Poland. 81 the reft. It is 800 miles in length, and the breadth comprehending Livonia^ is almoft as much. According to the Toltjh and Bohemian Hiftorians, they were, with theB^kwww/,originally Cro<j»i^n/,defcended from the Sc/^T/€/,and broughtinto thefe parts by Zechus and Lechm^ two Brethren baniftied out oftheir own Councrey. But this is refuted by Cromems. The moregeneral opinion is, that they were Sarmatians^ who upon the depar-ture of the German Nation towards the Koman Frontiers, flockd hi-ther, and byreafon of their common Languige^ or mixture with theSclaves of IHyricum^ thus accounted j and being united in the commonName of Sclaves^ fetlcd in that part which we now call Voland-^ theEftate hereof being much
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