220-222.) Yet the Rousillon contains 188,900 subjects, and annually pays 2,600,000 livres, (Necker, Administration des Finances, tom.i.p.278, 279;) more people, perhaps, and doubtless more money than the march of Charlemagne.] [Footnote 109: Schmidt, Hist.

des Allemands, tom.ii.p.200, &c.] [Footnote 110: See Giannone, tom.i.p 374, 375, and the Annals of Muratori.] [Footnote 111: Quot praelia in eo gesta! quantum sanguinis effusum sit! Testatur vacua omni habitatione Pannonia, et locus in quo regia Cagani fuit ita desertus, ut ne vestigium quidem humanae habitationis appareat.
Tota in hoc bello Hunnorum nobilitas periit, tota gloria decidit, omnis pecunia et congesti ex longo tempore thesauri direpti sunt.

Eginhard, cxiii.] [Footnote 112: The junction of the Rhine and Danube was undertaken only for the service of the Pannonian war, (Gaillard, Vie de Charlemagne, tom.ii.p.

312-315.) The canal, which would have been only two leagues in length, and of which some traces are still extant in Swabia, was interrupted by excessive rains, military avocations, and superstitious fears, (Schaepflin, Hist.

de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.xviii.