Note 111 — III. ROMAN INUNDATIONS.
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Dr. Edward Browne, the son of the author of the "Religio Medici," Sir Thomas Browne. Writing to his father from Rotterdam, in 1668, he says: "The cleanenesse and neatnesse of this towne is so new unto mee, that it affoordeth great satisfaction, most persons going about the streets in white slippers."—"Life and Works of Sir Thomas Browne." Pickering, 1836. Vol. i. p. 154.