The main article of furniture, in this bare scene of squalor, was the crucifix and vessel of holy-water under it....It was a desolate land without discipline, without law, without a master.

On 9,000 English square miles lived 500,000 souls: not 55 to the square mile.

[Footnote: Carlyle.
Frederick the Great, vol.x., p.

40.] And this poverty and squalor were not to be found only in one part of Poland, they seem to have been general.

Abbe de Mably when seeing, in 1771, the misery of the country (campagne) and the bad condition of the roads, imagined himself in Tartary.