[2752] Gall. Krieg, 1880, p. 143.
[2753] See J. F. Henry, Essai ... sur l’arrondissement communal de Boulogne-sur-mer, p. 123.
[2754] In order to counteract the effect of the flood, it would of course have been necessary to keep the ships’ heads much closer to the wind than within seven points and a half, which would have been impossible.
[2755] See Mém. de la Soc. des ant. de la Morinie, i, 1833 (1834), p. 253; A. E. E. Desjardins, Géogr. de la Gaule rom., i, 349-50, n. 3; J. J. Chifflet, Portus Iccius, pp. 25-6; and V. de St. Martin, Nouv. Dict. de Géogr. univ., i, 1879, p. 568.
[2756] Mém. couronnés par l’Acad. Roy. ... de Bruxelles, vi, 1827, pp. 149-50; Allent, Appendice à l’essai sur les reconnaissances militaires, pp. 667-8 (in tome i [1830] of Mémorial du Dépôt Gén. de la Guerre); V. de St. Martin, Nouv. Dict. de Géogr. univ., ii, 542.
[2757] Archaeol. Journal, xxi, 1864, p. 223. This suggestion, which was hailed by Freeman (see p. 553, supra) as a brilliant and conclusive discovery, was by no means new. Guest had been anticipated by Du Fresne (D. Haigneré, Recueil hist. du Boulonnais, ii, 1897, p. 431, n. 1) and by the Abbé de Fontenu (Mém. de litt. tirez des registres de l’Acad. Roy. des Inscr. et Belles-Lettres, xiii, 1734-7 [1741], plan between pages 416 and 417).
[2758] According to de Saulcy (Les campagnes de Jules César dans les Gaules, p. 172, n. 1), the inhabitants of the country believe that it extended only from the mouth of the ‘ruisseau du Phare’ to that of the ‘ruisseau d’Herlan’,—a distance of less than a mile and a quarter.
[2759] Lettre à M. Bouillet ... sur l’article Boulogne de son Dictionnaire, 1827, p. 20, n. 30. Cf. Annales de géogr., ii, 1893, p. 313. I have not been able to discover any historical evidence which would show that no dunes, small or great, existed at Wissant before the time of Edward III; but it is certain that immense quantities of sand were accumulated there in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. See Boulogne-sur-mer et la région boulonnaise, i, 372.
[2760] Annales de la Soc. géol du Nord, xxviii, 1899, pp. 85-7.
[2761] Annales de géogr., ii, 1893, p. 312; Annales de la Soc. géol. du Nord, viii, 1882, p. 1; xxviii, 1899, pp. 86, 88; J. Gosselet, Esquisse géol., &c., 4e fasc., 1903, p. 406.