a division of the Austrian empire, usually Galicia. designated as a kingdom. The whole of it formerly constituted a part of the kingdom or republic of Poland, and, by the successive dismemberments of that unfortunate country, has been transferred to the house of Austria. It is a long tract of land, one part being the most northern territory of the empire, whilst another part enters into the middle region of it. It extends between 47° 10' and 50° 44' of north latitude, and between 18° 47' and 26° 25' east longitude, over 33,572 square miles. It is bounded on the north by the republic of Cracow and the kingdom of Poland, on the east by Russia, on the south-east by Turkish Moldavia, on the south and south-west by Hungary, and on the west by the circle of Teschen, in Moravia.

According to the census of 1817, Galicia contained ninety-eight cities, 191 market-towns, 6175 villages, and 617,210 dwelling-houses. The inhabitants then amounted to 3,761,922, of whom 182,650 were Jews. Since that period the population has rapidly increased, and in 1830 it was calculated at 4,500,000. The prevailing religion is the Catholic, but divided into the Latin and the Greek ritual. There are a bishop and thirty-six churches of the Greek church, nineteen congregations of Lutherans, and thirteen of Calvinists, while the Jews have 294 synagogues, which are governed by a rabbi and six elders. All are alike established and paid by the government.

The land stretches out gradually from the north side of the Carpathian Mountains, and terminates in that vast plain which extends to the Baltic Sea, with scarcely an intervening hill. The Carpathians form part of Galicia, extending in some of their projections to the banks of the Vistula. The more eastern circles are very mountainous, and those of Bukovina and Czernowitz peculiarly so. The declination of the land is generally towards the north, and the streams, which all fall into the Vistula, are emptied into the Baltic Sea, excepting a small portion of the eastern part, the waters of which run to the Black Sea, after joining the Danube. The Vistula is not a river of Galicia, but merely forms part of the boundary between it and the kingdom of Poland. It receives the waters of the following rivers: 1st, those of the Dunajew, which rises in the Carpathians, receives the waters of the Poprad, also a navigable river, and some smaller streams, and after a course of 115 miles through the circles of Sandec, Bochnia, and Tarnow, falls into the Vistula near Nowopole; 2nd, those of the Wisłoka, which rises in the Carpathians, and after a course of eighty miles through the circles of Jaslow and Tarnow, enters the Vistula; 3rd, those of the San, which receives the tributary streams of the Wisłok and Tanew, and, after a tortuous course of nearly 200 miles, is lost in the Vistula near Lapiszow; 4th, those of the Bug, which rises near Soligory, in the circle of Złoczow, and above Sokal enters the kingdom of Poland. The rivers which run to the Black Sea are but small till they quit Galicia, though their sources are within the province. They are, the Dniester, the Stry, the Podhorze, the Pruth, the Sereth, and the Moldawa. There are no canals, and no lakes of any extent.

From the nature and extent of the country, the soil is very various. In the west and in the north there are many sandy tracts, in the vicinity of the rivers many morasses, and, taken as a whole, only indifferent land; but in the east and south-east divisions the soil is for the most part excellent and easily worked, and with moderate agriculture is found highly productive.

That part of the land which is most naturally fertile is so badly cultivated as to yield but little increase. Wheat and rye are said not to produce more than five times the measure of the seed that is sown, and barley and oats not more than six times. The poverty and the ignorance of the peasantry are impediments to their gaining much more produce than they consume; and for what little surplus corn they gain, it is generally sold to the usurious Jews before it is thrashed out. The working cattle and utensils are of the most miserable kind; and very little manure is applied to renovate the exhausted soil. About one third of the land is covered with forests, and some fine timber is annually supplied to commerce. The chief production is corn, some small portion of which is sent by the Vistula to Danzig, but the larger part is sold to the inhabitants of the eastern parts of Hungary. Oxen, horses, and cows, are few, and of bad races, though the Austrian government have taken much pains to introduce better breeds.

The chief mineral production is rock-salt, from the great mine near Cracow, which supplies a considerable part of Galicia, Bohemia, and Austrian Silesia. The mine in question, Wieliczka, yields annually near 25,000 tons of culinary salt. There are also some mines of iron, and others of zinc, but they are not very productive.

There is scarcely any commerce except for the native productions, but the contraband trade is very extensive, being conducted by the Jews from Lemberg and Brody, over the boundaries of the Russian empire, and with Cracow for colonial wines. The manufactures are almost exclusively of a domestic kind.

GALICISM, a mode of speech peculiar to the French language, and contrary to the rules of grammar in other languages. With us it is used to denote such phrases or modes of speech in English as are formed after the French idiom.