[199] The boat dates the silting process rather than the silting process the boat.
[200] The ancient belief is enshrined in Milton's lines referring to "ribs of gold" that "grow in Hell" and are dug out of its hill (Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 688-90).
[201] Agricola, Chap. XII.
[202] Herodian, III, 14.
[203] Dion Cassius (Xiphilinus) LXXVI, 12.
[204] Origins of English History, pp. 302-3.
Transcriber's note:
Minor spelling inconsistencies, mainly hyphenated words, have been made consistent.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.