[577] The use of turf was first made known in France in the year 1621, by Charles de Lamberville, advocate of the parliament of Paris, who resided some time in Holland, to which he had been sent by the king on public business. See Anciens Mineralogistes, par Gobet, i. p. 302. [578] Voyages de Monconys. Lyons, 1666, 2 vol. 4to, ii. p. 129. C’est lui (Erasme) qui a donné l’invention de la tourbe, qu’on brusle au lieu du charbon. See also Misson’s Travels. [579] Scaligerana, ii. p. 243; Je ne sçache aucun ancien, qui fasse mention de tourbes. [580] Voyages, vol. iii. [581] Leges Salicæ, ed. Eccardi, p. 42. [582] Lindenbrogii Codex Legum Antiquarum. Franc. 1613. [583] Trotz Jus Agrarium Fœd. Belgii, ii. p. 643. [584] Historia Episcopatuum Fœderati Belgii. Lugd. Bat. 1719, 2 vols. fol. i. p. 130. [585] Wiarda Altfrisisches Wörterbuch; where it is conjectured, not without probability, that the name Finland is thence derived.--Du Cange, Glossarium, under the word Venna. [586] The words are, “Morum dedit dictus comes dictæ ecclesiæ ad turfas fodiendas.” [587] Britonis Philippidos lib. ii. v. 144. [588] These lives are in Matthæi Veteris Ævi Analecta, Hag. 1738, v. p. 247. [589] I find quoted for this conjecture the Dissertation, Eelking de Belgis sæculo xii. in Germaniam advenis, Gottingæ, 1770, pp. 162, 164. But nothing further is found there than that the right of digging turf was in all probability confirmed to the colonists. This important Dissertation was written by Professor Wundt of Heidelberg. [590] This information may be found in Crymogæa, sive rerum Islandicarum libri iii. per Arngrimum Jonam Islandum. Hamburgi (1609), 4to, p. 50. “Torf cujus inventor perhibetur in Orcadibus dux quidam Orcadensis, Einarus Raugnvaldi ducis Norvegici de Maere filius, tempore pulcricomi Norveg. regis, qui idcirco Torffeinarus dictus est.”