for that is specified ( da ruoda ariioda) in other Venetian measurements, but the whole oarspace could scarcely have been so much, and with twenty-eightbenches to a side there could not have been more than 4 feet * See the woodcuts opposite and at p. jy ; also Paniera, p. 46 (who is here, how-ever,… … ^b INTRODUCTION gunnel-space to each bench. And as one of the objects of thegrouping of the oars was to allow room between the benches forthe action of cross-bowmen, &c., it is plain that the rowlockspace for the three oars must have been very much compressed.* The rowers were divided into…
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