This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1749 Excerpt: ...a very high tower and an excellent clock. The exchange and the arsenal are also worth feeing; the former has a noble hall adorned with some very good pictures. In the arsenal, there is a prodigious quantity of all manner of military implements, and a statue of king Sigismond stretched dead on his tomb, and hard by the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1749 Excerpt: ...a very high tower and an excellent clock. The exchange and the arsenal are also worth feeing; the former has a noble hall adorned with some very good pictures. In the arsenal, there is a prodigious quantity of all manner of military implements, and a statue of king Sigismond stretched dead on his tomb, and hard by the effigy of count Egmont in full armour on horseback. The fortifications are also worth admiring, consisting Fortifies of very broad walls, deep ditches, and twenty tlons- bastions. The gates are elegantly built, each of them with three draw-bridges. At the mouth of the Vistula j there are two strong forts, with a high tower and lanthorn to direct the ships coming into the harbour. The suburbs are very Suur3 large, and the neighbourhood round about exceeding pleasant, being strewed with villages, and public houses, whither the inhabitants repair on Sundays and festivals to divert themselves. Not far from the mouth of the Vijlula stands the famous abby of Oliva of the Cijlercian order, famous for the peace concluded here between the kings of Poland and Sweden in 1660. The inhabitants of this city are supposed to be Government about 200,000 fouls, who are subject to a mixt kind of government Their magistracy consists of thirty senators, who continue for life; four of whom are burgo-masters. There are besides thirteen consuls, who elect the said burgo-masters out of their own body, and nominate the judges, and all other officers of the city. From these an appeal lies to the thirteen consuls and four burgo-masters, and from them to the republic of Poland. The king annually nominates a burgo-master out of the consuls, to represent his person in the senate, by whom all sentences of death must be signed in the king's name. One hundred burgesses ar...
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Add this copy of The Grand Tour, Volume 2... to cart. $66.48, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Nabu Press.
