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184 is the thickest we have found; it was associated with more than twenty others mixed up with some Roman remains and coins of the 4th century. This variety is found in the middle ages, in the ruins of various castles, as that of Sogron (fig, 45); a circumstance which leads us to think that they commence in the barbarian epoch, and continue during the middle ages, not regularly or as a generally adopted style, but rather as a foreign importation whose origin is unknown.

'Shoes really of the middle ages, and anterior to the