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 298
ch rowers are seated, it maybe called a double vessel. The main body of the vessel is a bireme,with a tier of oars pulled from a projecting bamboo gallery. The cor-core of the Moluccas is, however, a regular bireme, not depending onan outrigger for stability (in which the upper or outer oars are… … appear from the annexed engravings of two coins ofthe Emperor Hadrian. One represents a bireme, theother a trireme. We have no similar means of testing what I havesupposed to be the internal arrangement; and I shall,therefore, examine some of the passages in ancientauthors which most directly bear…
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