Excerpt from Chambers's Encyclopędia, 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.
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