The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

June 26. A Traveller lately arrived from Poland, gives this account of that unhappy Country: "The first five Miles from Warsaw, the Country is Cultivated, but all the rest of it, as far as Rava (including 55 Miles) is one continued Desert, nothing to be seen but ruins of Villages, Cottages, & Noblemen's Seats. From Rava to Sirattis a Tract of 100 Miles, formerly cultivated, and now containing no more than 3 Villages uninhabited; all the rest burnt, and the People gone. From Sirad to Siliia is about 40 Miles, one continued scene of Ruin. In a Journey of 200 Miles, through a Country formerly well Cultivated and Peopled, there are not now to be found above 1000 Souls. See here the Genius of the Roman Catholic Religion in perfection! This fine Country is reduced to this Miserable and shocking state, wholly by the furious zeal of some Popish Bishops, who would never be satisfied without the total Destruction of the Protestants and Greeks,"