Strabo describes it thus: "Situated on a small island not much more than a hundred Stades in length, and scarce a Stade in breadth, without any possessions on the mainland or the islands, this city sends out the most and largest ships, and seems to yield to no other city, except Rome, in the number of the inhabitants.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
The presidents of the tribunals of Lilbeck, Stade, Bremerlehe, and Minden were so utterly ignorant of the German language that it was necessary to explain to them all the pleadings in the council-chamber.
"Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, v10"
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
It Stade in the Barril.
"The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1"
Charles Farrar Browne