 But that which surprises me most in the land, after the city itself, I will now proceed to mention. The boats which come down the river to Babylon are circular, and made of skins. The frames, which are of willow, are cut in the country of the Armenians...  Transactions of the Albany Institute - Page 256by Albany Institute - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Herodotus - 1858 - 746 pages
...the land, after the city itself, I will now proceed to mention. The boats which come down the river to Babylon are circular, and made of skins. The frames,...stretched outside, and thus the boats are made, without either stem or stern, quite round like a shield. They are then entirely filled with straw, and their... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1862 - 504 pages
...Herodotus, who says, when describing those which he saw at Babylon : " The boats which come down the river to Babylon are circular, and made of skins. The frames,...stretched outside, and thus the boats are made without either stem or stern, quite round, like a shield. They are then entirely filled with straw, and the... | |
 | Herodotus - 1862 - 600 pages
...the land, after the city itself, I will now proceed to mention. The boats which come down the river to Babylon are circular, and made of skins. The frames,...Armenians above Assyria, and on these, which serve for •peaks of it in his History of Plants (viii. 7). Berosus (Fr. 1 ) says th:rt the fund produced naturally... | |
 | Herodotus - 1862 - 596 pages
...the city itself, I will now proceed to mention. The boats which come down the river to Babylon aro circular, and made of skins. The frames, which are...Armenians above Assyria, and on these, which serve for ipeaks of it in Ыя History of Plants 'viii. 7). Berosus (Fr. 1) says that the bud produced naturally... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1870 - 552 pages
...Herodotus, who says, when describing those which he saw at Babylon : ' The boats which come down the river to Babylon are circular, and made of skins. The frames,...stretched outside, and thus the boats are made without either stem or stern, quite round, like a shield. They are then entirely filled with straw, and the... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 754 pages
...the land, after the city itself, I will now proceed to mention. The boats which come down the river to Babylon are circular, and made of skins. The frames,...stretched outside, and thus the boats are made, without either stem or stern, quite round like a shield. They are then entirely filled with straw, and their... | |
 | Edward Henry Knight - 1876 - 1002 pages
...materials could be procured. Ulysses, the hero, made his own boat. " The boats which come down the river [Euphrates] to Babylon are circular, and made of skins....stretched outside, and thus the boats are made without either stem or stern, quite round like a shield." — HERODOTUS, I. 193. The modern boats of the Euphrates... | |
 | Royal Institution of Naval Architects - 1876 - 444 pages
...I., chap. 194, laid on the table by Mr. J. Scott Russell : — " The boats which come down the river to Babylon are circular and made of skins. The frames,...stretched outside, and thus the boats are made, without either stem or stern, quite round " like a shield. They are then entirely filled with straw, and their... | |
 | Edward Henry Knight - 1876 - 1004 pages
...materials could be procured. Ulysses, the hero, made his own boat. " The boats which come down the river [Euphrates] to Babylon are circular, and made of skins. The frames, which arc of willow, are cut in the country of the Armenians, above Assyria, and on these, which serve for... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1886 - 416 pages
...used on the Tigris and the Euphrates. Ta TfKolas avTotai, KT\. ' The boats which come down the river to Babylon are circular and made of skins. The frames,...stretched outside : and thus the boats are made, without either stem or stern, quite round like a shield. They are then entirely filled with straw, and their... | |
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