The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1830 |
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Side 14
... vessels , such at least as were built by Ulysses at the island of Circe , were nothing more than large boats with one mast and sail , and with a small fore deck on which the cable was coiled : on or below this deck the chief of the crew ...
... vessels , such at least as were built by Ulysses at the island of Circe , were nothing more than large boats with one mast and sail , and with a small fore deck on which the cable was coiled : on or below this deck the chief of the crew ...
Side 24
... vessel for twelve days over the Libyan continent . He- catæus thought to improve on this idea , when he sup- posed that Jason sailed through the Phasis into the ocean , and from the ocean into the Nile , thus betraying within what ...
... vessel for twelve days over the Libyan continent . He- catæus thought to improve on this idea , when he sup- posed that Jason sailed through the Phasis into the ocean , and from the ocean into the Nile , thus betraying within what ...
Side 33
... vessel may be rowed from one end to the other in fifteen days ; and in the broadest part the pas- sage may be made in eight . " These measures are believed to be perfectly exact . The geographers of a later age , and Strabo among the ...
... vessel may be rowed from one end to the other in fifteen days ; and in the broadest part the pas- sage may be made in eight . " These measures are believed to be perfectly exact . The geographers of a later age , and Strabo among the ...
Side 46
... vessels , and had on board no less than thirty thou- sand persons of both sexes . After sailing for two days beyond the columns of Hercules , the fleet anchored op- posite to a great plain , where a town called Thymiate- rion was built ...
... vessels , and had on board no less than thirty thou- sand persons of both sexes . After sailing for two days beyond the columns of Hercules , the fleet anchored op- posite to a great plain , where a town called Thymiate- rion was built ...
Side 59
... vessels was collected and entrusted to the com- mand of Næarchus . Nicæa , on the Hydaspes , about 800 miles from the sea , was the point from which the expedition departed : the army , divided into two bodies , marched on both sides of ...
... vessels was collected and entrusted to the com- mand of Næarchus . Nicæa , on the Hydaspes , about 800 miles from the sea , was the point from which the expedition departed : the army , divided into two bodies , marched on both sides of ...
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The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1 William Desborough Cooley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1833 |
The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1 William Desborough Cooley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1830 |
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