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Excerpt from Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Vol. 5: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge; Friday to Humanitarians
Danzig, about 50 miles in length, 4 to 11 miles broad, and 332 sq. M. In area. It was once entirely walled off from the Baltic by a narrow spit of land, through which a passage, 1247 feet wide and Mt feet dee was cut in 1510 during a violent storm. The all' is 10 to 16 feet deep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.