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A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
Romans and they first tried their forces , on pretence of protecting their respective allies , but in reality out of a desire for sovereignty . - The former , when they made this bold attempt , were unacquainted with naval affairs , and knew not how to build a gailey , » -until one of the Carthagemans , cruising on the coast , fell by accident into their handsand by that model they built a navy . While the
, galleys were building , they exercised the seamen in rowing on the dry shore . When this fleet was launched , the ships , as might be supposed , proved unwieldy . The fleets of those two powers became afterwards very formidable . Anno Koime 497 , the Roman , fleet had 140 , 000 men on board , and that of Carthage 150 , 000 . The Roman power at sea rose on the destruction of that of their
enemies , and continued as long as their empire subsisted . We do not find that they applied themselves to new discoveries , or eves ' exceeded the bounds of which the Phoenicians had before known . Germanicus , in the year 17 , went by sea as far north as the Weser and Elbe ; and the Roman fleet , under Agricola , circumnavigated Britain , and subdued the Orkneys .
When the Romans became weakened and enervated by their riches and luxury * fhe barbarians of the north dispossessed them of their territories , and seated themselves in their room . In the third century of- the Christian ffira we find the Anglo-Saxons making predatory incursions into Britain . The-Vandals ravaged the Roman dominions in 407 , sailed as far as Spain , and even passed the sea to Africa . ¦
To the Romans is to be ascribed the invention of the engine : called corvus , which consisted of a large piece of timber set upright on the prow of the ship , to which was secured a stage of boards ,-at the end of which were two massive irons , sharp pointed , tha whole to be hoisted or lowered by a pulley ; at the top of the upright timbers , this engine , when the ships come close together in
fight , was let down suddenly , and with its sharp irons grappled the enemy ' s ship , by Which the men obtained a firm stage , oil which they could board the ship to which they were opposed . Of the distinction of the species of galleys called triremens , qv . S draremes , and quinquerem . es , much has been written , but little satisfactory . ¦ [ To be continued . ' } . .
The Choice Of Abdala:
THE CHOICE OF ABDALA :
AN . ORIENTAL APOLOGUE . "T ^ . THERE theSun begins his diurnal course , lived the youthful V V Abda'la , whose uncommon virtues endeared him to all the subjects of the sultan AJmanzor , bis father .
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A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
Romans and they first tried their forces , on pretence of protecting their respective allies , but in reality out of a desire for sovereignty . - The former , when they made this bold attempt , were unacquainted with naval affairs , and knew not how to build a gailey , » -until one of the Carthagemans , cruising on the coast , fell by accident into their handsand by that model they built a navy . While the
, galleys were building , they exercised the seamen in rowing on the dry shore . When this fleet was launched , the ships , as might be supposed , proved unwieldy . The fleets of those two powers became afterwards very formidable . Anno Koime 497 , the Roman , fleet had 140 , 000 men on board , and that of Carthage 150 , 000 . The Roman power at sea rose on the destruction of that of their
enemies , and continued as long as their empire subsisted . We do not find that they applied themselves to new discoveries , or eves ' exceeded the bounds of which the Phoenicians had before known . Germanicus , in the year 17 , went by sea as far north as the Weser and Elbe ; and the Roman fleet , under Agricola , circumnavigated Britain , and subdued the Orkneys .
When the Romans became weakened and enervated by their riches and luxury * fhe barbarians of the north dispossessed them of their territories , and seated themselves in their room . In the third century of- the Christian ffira we find the Anglo-Saxons making predatory incursions into Britain . The-Vandals ravaged the Roman dominions in 407 , sailed as far as Spain , and even passed the sea to Africa . ¦
To the Romans is to be ascribed the invention of the engine : called corvus , which consisted of a large piece of timber set upright on the prow of the ship , to which was secured a stage of boards ,-at the end of which were two massive irons , sharp pointed , tha whole to be hoisted or lowered by a pulley ; at the top of the upright timbers , this engine , when the ships come close together in
fight , was let down suddenly , and with its sharp irons grappled the enemy ' s ship , by Which the men obtained a firm stage , oil which they could board the ship to which they were opposed . Of the distinction of the species of galleys called triremens , qv . S draremes , and quinquerem . es , much has been written , but little satisfactory . ¦ [ To be continued . ' } . .
The Choice Of Abdala:
THE CHOICE OF ABDALA :
AN . ORIENTAL APOLOGUE . "T ^ . THERE theSun begins his diurnal course , lived the youthful V V Abda'la , whose uncommon virtues endeared him to all the subjects of the sultan AJmanzor , bis father .