bochnia

Updated: May 20, 2025

I should not have feared the descent, as I was familiar with such adventures, having explored the salt-mines of Wieliczka and Bochnia, in Gallicia, some years before, in which I had had to let myself down by a rope, which is a much more dangerous method than the tub. With the stroke of twelve, four blasting trains in the large pit were fired.

Ida Pfeiffer - Visit to Iceland : and the Scandinavian North

From this place he visited Venice on foot, and early in the year visited Rome and Florence, sailing from Ancona in March for Spalatro, and worked up through Hungary to a little place called Bochnia, on the Vistula, down which river he went by boat to Königsberg, staying in Warsaw a few weeks.

Arthur Christopher Benson - Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge : Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College