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Excerpt from The Modern Part of an Universal History, From the Earliest Account of Time, Vol. 34: Compiled From Original Writers
As to the Le?ir or Higher Toland, it contains only the three palatinates of Cracow, Lab/in, and Sa'ndomir in the former of which fiands the capital of Poland, bearing the name of the palatinate, and efieemed the largeft, the molt regular, and beautiful city in the Poli/h dominions. The hi?orians of this, country endeavour to deduce from the name, that this city muff be of great antiquity. Cracow, they fay, comes from Crocus, the firft duke of Poland, which pedigree they' tr'ace, but imperfedlly, up to the Ro man Graechi. Here Cajimir the Great founded an univer lity, now compofed of eleven colleges, and endowed with confiderable privileges, though the fciences have made but little prbgrefs b.
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