Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 231
ree with the positive statements ofancient writers; so that at the present day weare still as much in the dark concerning this veryinteresting problem as w^e are concerning themanner in which the pyramids of Egypt werebuilt. Discoveries are being constantly made, the explanation of the forty banks… … A BIREME. i893- BATTLE-SHIPS AND SEA-FIGHTS OF THE ANCIENTS. 219 The voyages of the ancient ships were oftenlong,— for example, that of the Goths fromSicily in the Mediterranean around to the coastof Holland; and, if the writers of the middleages considered the statements of such deeds tobe…
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