Some canals of communication between the rivers, the Saone and the Meuse, the Rhine and the Danube, were faintly attempted.

[112] Their execution would have vivified the empire; and more cost and labor were often wasted in the structure of a cathedral.
[1121] [Footnote 105: See the concise, but correct and original, work of D'Anville, (Etats Formes en Europe apres la Chute de l'Empire Romain en Occident, Paris, 1771, in 4to.,) whose map includes the empire of Charlemagne; the different parts are illustrated, by Valesius (Notitia Galliacum) for France, Beretti (Dissertatio Chorographica) for Italy, De Marca (Marca Hispanica) for Spain.

For the middle geography of Germany, I confess myself poor and destitute.] [Footnote 106: After a brief relation of his wars and conquests, (Vit.
Carol.c.

5-14,) Eginhard recapitulates, in a few words, (c.

15,) the countries subject to his empire.