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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15334, 17 June 1910, Page 8

Boryslav, in Galicia—“tho back of Europe”—is truthfully called the dirtiest place in Europe. It is the oil trade centre, and is decidedly not beautiful. In tho main street all tho houses have been built on mine refuse, and most of them have sunk below the level of the street. In fact-, there is not a solid brick or stone building in tho whole of tho town, and many of the houses are in a state of partial or entire collapso. Unrefined petroleum U everywhere. It gets into, everything —food and clothing-—aud tho atmosphere. reeks of it.