[12]Nine or ten miles out near Heligoland, are the nearest soundings of about fifty fathoms.
[13]Palgrave, "Saxon Commonwealth," vol. I.
[14]"Notes of a Journey in England."
[15]Léonce de Lavergne, "De l'Agriculture anglaise." "The soil is much worse than that of France."
[16]There are at least four rivers in England passing by the name of "Ouse," which is only another form of "ooze."—Tr.
[17]Tacitus, "De moribus Germanorum," passim: Diem noctemque continuare potando, nulli proborum.—Sera juvenum Venus.—Totos dies juxta focum atque ignem agunt. Dargaud, "Voyage en Danemark. They take six meals per day, the first at five o'clock in the morning. One should see the faces and meals at Hamburg and at Amsterdam."
[18]Bede, v. 10. Sidonius, VIII. 6. Lingard, "History of England," 1854, I. chap. 2.
[19]Zozimos, III. 147. Amm. Marcellinus, XXVIII. 526.
[20]Aug. Thierry, "Hist. S. Edmundi," VI. 441. See Ynglingasaga, and especially Egil's Saga.
[21]Lingard, "History of England," I. 164, says, however, "Every tenth man out of the six hundred received his liberty, and of the rest a few were selected for slavery."—Tr.