a large city, capital of the province of Masovia, and of the ancient, as well as the revived kingdom of Poland. It is built partly in a plain, and partly on a gentle ascent rising from the banks of the Vistula, which is about as broad as the Thames at Westminster, but very shallow in summer. This city and its suburbs occupy a vast extent of ground, and contained in 1797, 70,000 inhabitants, among whom is a great number of foreigners. The whole has a melancholy appearance, exhibiting the strong contrast of wealth and poverty, luxury and distress. The streets are spacious, but ill paved; the churches and public buildings, and the palaces of the nobility are numerous and splendid; but the greatest part of the houses are mean and ill constructed wooden hovels.—At the final division of Poland in 1795, Warsaw fell to the share of Prussia, but was ceded by her to Bonaparte at the peace of Tilsit 1807; and on the overthrow of the French power, was assigned to Russia, with the territory named the duchy of Warsaw, which has since taken the name of the kingdom of Poland. E. Long. 21. 6. N. Lat. 52. 14.