History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 326
it would be im-possible to work with effect more than five banks ofoars. As his views are more in accordance with ourown than those of any other writer, we shall referto them at greater length, although differing alsofrom him in some of his most important conclusions.And here it ought to be stated,… … MERCHANT SHIPPING. 277 too little consideration to the facts, that ancientgalleys varied quite as much in size as the vesselsof modern times, that their power or dimensionswere not, in all cases, measured by the numberof their banks of oars, and that in proportion to thenumber of rowers the…
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