[Footnote 30: I shall quote the authentic testimony of the
Saxon poet, (A.D. 887 - 899,) de Rebus gestis Caroli magni,
l. v. 437 -440, in the Historians of France, (tom. v. p.
180:)
Ad quae marmoreas praestabat Roma columnas, Quasdam
praecipuas pul hra Ravenna dedit. De tam longinqua poterit
regiona vetustas Illius ornatum, Francia, ferre tibi.
And I shall add from the Chronicle of Sigebert, (Historians
of France, tom. v. p. 378,) extruxit etiam Aquisgrani
basilicam plurimae pulchritudinis, ad cujus structuram a
Roma et Ravenna columnas et marmora devehi fecit.]