| Show A LARGE SHIP ptolemy hift oDa er who lived dorile some two hundred years before ch christ ilist had a ship with forty banks of rowers being be ig english feet in length lit ilo feet longer than the persia and only feet shorter than the great eastern 76 feet from one side to the other in height to gunwales gunzales gun wales it was 96 feet and from the highest part of the stern to the waterline water line it was about a hundred feet it had four foug rudders each 60 feet long iong ong when put to sea it held more than rowers and ana supernumeraries and on the deck were marinero mariners ma and besides all these there was a large body of men under the decks and a vast quantity of provisions and supplies |
