[3] Cobbett, comparing the relative intellectual culture of the British Isles and of France between the years 1600 and 1787, found that of the writers on the arts and sciences who were distinguished by a place in the Universal, Historical, Critical and Bibliographical Dictionary one hundred and thirty belonged to England, Scotland and Ireland, and six hundred and seventy-six to France.
[4] “Nous cuisinons même l’amour.”—Taine.
[5] The Seine takes five hours to flow through the seven miles of modern Paris.
[6] “Cesare armato con gli occhi grifani.”—Inferno, iv. 123.
[7] Of some 10,000 ancient inscriptions found in Gaul, only twenty are in Celtic, and less than thirty words of Celtic origin now remain in the French language.
[8] The water supply of Paris is even now partly derived from these sources, and flows along the old repaired Roman aqueduct.
[9] Traces of the Gallo-Roman wall have been discovered, and are marked across the roadway opposite No. 6 Rue de la Colombe.
[10] The Isle de Galilée was joined to the Cité during the thirteenth century.
[11] In 1848 some remains were found of the old halls of this building, and of its columns, worn by the ropes of the boatmen who used to moor their craft to them.
[12] The exact position of this bridge is much disputed by authorities, some of whom would locate it on the site of the present Pont au Change. The balance of probabilities seems to us in favour of the position given in the text.