The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years--if it ever did end--began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.
"The Royal pen of the prophet David hath most truly affirmed, 'that they who go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep." -Remarkable Providences, by Increase Mather.
"The receptionist echoed the decor, a human accessory precisely in tune with the restrained, almost severe chic of her surroundings." Chasing Cezanne by Peter Mayle
The Celts were once found all over Europe, from yhr Black Sea in the east to Ireland in the west, from south-west Spain & southern Italy, through Switzerland & up as far north as Denmark.
Sorry for the long quote - & it's only a baby name book.