History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 571
ained two hundred thousand inhabitants, 1 For details of the war with Ancona about a.d. 1167, see Smedley,Sketches, vol. i. p. 67, &c. 2 Amalfi was taken by the Pisans a.d. 1137.—Sismondi, vol. i. p. 203. MERCHANT SHIPPING. 521 and many beautiful monuments still attest its formergreatness and… … Besides different sorts of merchant vessels bearinga common resemblance to those of the Venetians, thePisans constructed ships of war with towers ofwood, and machines for attacking an enemy, whichthey managed with a skill that rendered them mostformidable opponents. Their expeditions against…
Commerce · Ships and shipping · Merchant marine
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