a river of Germany, which has its source near a town of the same name in Silesia, and on the confines of Moravia. It runs north through that province, and then into the Marche of Brandenburg and Pomerania, where it forms a large lake, afterwards falling into the Baltic Sea by three mouths; between which lie the islands Uledom and Wolin. It passes by several towns; as Ratibor, Oppeln, Breslau, Glogau, and Crosten, in Silesia; Francfort, Lebus, and Curflin, in Brandenburg; and Gartz, Stein, Cammin, Wallin, Uledom, and Wolgait, in Pomerania.