Wieliczka, a small town of Austrian Galicia, 10 miles SE. of Cracow by rail, remarkable for its salt-mines, in which over 1000 of its 6289 inhabitants are employed. For the mines, see SALT. The annual output exceeds 50,000 tons.
Wieliczka
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 650
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