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SAROS-PATAK

Volume 19 · 73 words · 1842 Edition

a city of Hungary, in the province of the Hither Theiss, and the circle of Tokay. It stands on the river Bodrog, and is well built, being the seat of a Calvinist university, which has nine professors and 1240 students, with a library of 20,000 volumes, a museum, and physical laboratory. It has manufactures of woollen cloths, and contains 1630 houses, with 9150 inhabitants. Long. 21° 29'. E. Lat. 48° 18'. 50'. N.