History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 386
2 Full details of this, and of two other less perfect vessels discoveredabout the same time, at Thorsbjerg and Nydam, in S. Jutland, aregiven in the very interesting work by Mr. C. Engelhardt, entitledDenmark in the early Iron Age, Lond. 4to. 1866. From the frontis-piece of this work the… … MERCHANT SHIPPING. 337 There are peculiarities in its structure, testifyingto the abundance both of material and skilled labour.The timber or heavy planks, for instance, instead ofbeing sawn into boards of equal thickness—or thin-ness—throughout, are cut thin where thinness wasdesirable, but thick…
Commerce · Ships and shipping · Merchant marine
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