Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823* edition. Excerpt: ... collect in the woods in spring, keeping them in particular spots in their gardens surrounded with ditches till winter, and then selling them. They are known far and near by the name of Caransebes snails. Dr. Bright saw at Keszthely a pen for snails, which are in request in Hungary as well as in Germany, as an article of food. This pen was formed by boards two feet high, the upper edge of which was spiked with nails an inch long- and half an inch asunder. This barrier the animals never attempt to pass. The snail, the helix pomatia, is in great demand at Vienna, whert7 sacks of them are regularly exposed in the market for sale. CHAR V. GALICIA, OR AUSTRIAN POLAND. EXTENT AND NATURE OF THE COUNTRY-- BENEFITS RESULTING TO THE PEOPLE FROM THE PARTITION OF POLAND --CRUELTY AND INJUSTICE OF THE ANCIENT SYSTEM--SUPERIOR DEGREE Q.F SECURITY ENJOYED UNDER THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT MODE OF BUILDING DEGREES APPEARANCE OF A POLISH VILLAGE INNS JEWS UNCLE AN LIN ESS OF THE POLES. The kingdom of Galicia is that part of Poland which, on the partition of that monarchy among its more powerful neighbours, fell to the share of the house of Austria. It contains upwards of fifteen hundred German square miles, and not far short of four millions of inhabitants. The country chiefly consists of a sandy plain situated at the northern foot of the lofty mountains, which separate it from Hungary, Transylvania and the Bukowina by one of their secondary ramifications. The soil of the plains of Galicia is nevertheless more irregular than that of Hungary. It is infinitely diversified by hills of no great elevation, but in some parts of extreme fertility. Much as it has been the fashion to deplore the "fatal partition" of Poland, and to execrate the powers concerned in it, we...
