a circle in the Prussian province of Silesia, extending over 213 square miles, or 136,820 acres, containing two cities, two market-towns, sixty-two villages, and 5226 houses, inhabited by 34,342 individuals. It is divided into two parts by the river Oder, is a level district, and, on the Polish side of that river, is covered with woods. The only manufacture is that of linens. The capital of the circle, the city of Brieg, is on the banks of the Oder, a well-built town, containing four Lutheran and three Catholic churches, with several public charitable institutions. The inhabitants amount to 10,547, who are occupied in various manufactures, and carry on trade by the Oder with the Baltic Sea at Stettin.