1685(?), William King, Of the Bogs and Loughs in Ireland, in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume III (1683 to 1694), page 142:
As to the origin of bogs, it is to be observed, that […] every barbarous ill-inhabited country has them. I take the loca palustria, or paludes, to be the very same we call bogs, the ancient Gauls, Germans, and Britons, retiring, when beaten, to the paludes, is just what we have experienced in the Irish, […]
1846, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 252:
The drainage of this district , thus originally intercepted by the dunes, might be supposed to have occasioned malaria along the coast; but Cæsar, who frequently mentions the "paludes" of Belgic Gaul, makes no remark as to the insalubrity of the country. […]
1858, Martyn Paine, The Institutes of Medecine, page 761:
... and, whether in the Mediterranean or the Caribbean Isles, the jungles of Asia, the pestiferous regions of Africa, the paludes of Italy, or the high, and temperate, and salubrious countries of Europe and America, we witness[…]
1891, Eugene Benson, From the Asolan Hills: A Poem, page 98:
The palude of Commacchio "which did not even exist at the beginning of our epoch," covers, it is conjectured, the site of the lost city which furnished Italian amber, though it is still an open and much discussed question [...]
