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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY.

Introductory—The first attempt to float, by means of a hollowed log
and raft—The Ark—Boats of skin—Earliest boats or ships—Their
form—Mode of construction—Names of ships—Decorations—Launching,
&c.—Master—Mate—Boatswain—St. Paul's ship—Rig
and Sails—Undergirders—Anchors and cables—Decks—Nautical
instruments—Mariner's compass—Speed of ancient ships. Pages xv-xliv


CHAPTER I.

Maritime commerce of Antiquity—Coasting—Tyre—Argonautic Expedition—Queen
Semiramis—The Phœnicians—Early notices of
them—The prophecy of Ezekiel—Trade in tin—Origin of the
name "Cassiterides Insulæ"—Amber—Mainland trade of Phœnicia—Cause
of prosperity—Carthage—Utica—Commercial policy—Trade
with Spain—Trade in Africa—The commercial policy of Carthage—Limits
of trade 1-24


CHAPTER II.

Earliest caravan trade—Ophir—Port of Ezion-geber—The voyages of
the Jewish ships—The inland commerce of Solomon—Babylon—Gerrha
and Tylos—Babylonian commerce—Assyrian boats—Lydia—Ionia—Caria—Phrygia—Scythians—Their
caravan routes to India,
viâ the Caspian 25-43


CHAPTER III.

Egypt—Commerce—Sesostris—Naucratis—The Nile—Sailors of Egypt—Their
boats—How navigated—Mode of building them—Cargo
barges—Their rig—Steering—Passage and cargo boats—Boat for
the conveyance of the dead—Variety of boats, and their superiority—Prosperity
of Egypt under the Ptolemies, B.C. 283—Canal over