The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 62
the battle-field of Marathon; itsbody is covered with inscriptions in the Greek language, but they areso worn and defaced that they are no longer legible. One of the objects of interest in the Arsenal is the model of anancient Yenetian vessel, and our friends were greatly interested in ex-amining… … GALLEY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. galleys had two or three tiers of oars, and the work of propelling a boatin this way was exceedingly tiresome. The largest of the Venetiangalleys had a length of 150 feet and more, and they carried twelveguns. Most of the oarsmen were convicts or prisoners of war,…
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