...raised very high, and, in like manner, the sterns were adapted to the force of the waves and storms. The ships were built wholly of oak, and designed to endure...for sails they used skins and thin dressed leather. * * * Although turrets were built [on the Roman decks], yet the height of the sterns of the barbarous...

...raised very high, and, in like manner, the sterns were adapted to the force of the waves and storms. The ships were built wholly of oak, and designed to endure...secured fast by iron chains instead of cables, and for suils they used skins and thin dressed leather. * * * Although turrets were built [on the Roman decks],...

...The ships were built wholly of oak, and designed to endure all force and violence of the elements. The benches, which were made of planks a foot in breadth,...were secured fast by iron chains, instead of cables. Skins and thin dressed leather were used instead of canvas. Ctesar admits that his vessels excelled...

...The ships were built wholly of oak, and designed to endure all force and violence of the elements. The benches, which were made of planks a foot in breadth,...were secured fast by iron chains, instead of cables. Skins and thin dressed leather were used instead of canvas. Ca3sar admits that his vessels excelled...

...tho sterns were adapted to tho force of the waves and storms [which they were formed to sustain]. The ships were built wholly of oak, and designed to endure...fastened by iron spikes of the thickness of a man's thumb ; tho anchors were secured fast by iron chains instead of cables, and for sails they used skins and...

...storms. The vessels were built wholly of oak, so as to bear any violence or shock ; the cross-benches, a foot in breadth, were fastened by iron spikes of the thickness of the thumb ; the anchors were secured to iron chains, instead of to ropes ; raw hides and thinly-dressed...

...the sterns were adapted to the force of the waves and storms which they were formed to sustain. The ships were built wholly of oak, and designed to endure...of canvas and their ignorance of its application, <>r for this reason, which is more lLemailre: Revue Arclioolii^., 1KK3, i, \i. 149. -llorckh: Seeurkuiidon,...

...storms. The vessels were built wholly of oak, so as to bear any violence or shock ; the cross-benches, a foot in breadth, were fastened by iron spikes of the thickness of the thumb ; the anchors were Vol. 170.— No. 340. Bell. Gall. iii. 13. 2 A secured secured to iron...

...the sterns were adapted to the force of the waves and storms which they were formed to sustain. The ships were built wholly of oak, and designed to endure...instead of cables, and for sails they used skins and tin n dressed leather. These were used either through their want of canvas and their ignorance of its...

...of planks a foot in breadth, fastened by spikes as thick as a man's thumb. The anchors were secured by iron chains instead of cables, and for sails they used skins and dressed leather. (Caesar, 3, 13.) In their final struggle with the Romans, the Veneti called to their...