The voyage and shipwreck of St. Paul, with dissertations on the life and writings of St. Luke, and the ships and navigation of the ancients (1880)
Smith, James, 1782-1867, Smith, Walter Edward, ed · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 297
14 inches nearer thebow than the nearest oar-port of a zygite, and 14inches nearer the stern than the nearest oar-port of athalamite, and being about three feet higher from thewater than the oar-ports of the thalamites, and onefoot nine inches higher than the oar-ports of thezygites. The highest… … * Mitford cites the bouanga of the Philippine Islands, described by-Pages {Voyages, i, 169), as a case in point of an existing trireme ; butas the bouanga has an outrigger upon which rowers are seated, it maybe called a double vessel. The main body of the vessel is a bireme,with a tier of oars…
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