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for oars, and showed no trace of a mast. The oaken boat 
was remarkable for the elegance and the flexibility of its 
outlines ; it measured 24 metres, 80 feet, between the high 
points of the two stems; the greatest breadth was 3°50 
metres, nearly twelve feet. It was propelled by means of 
14 pairs of oars, exactly like those of our own day, the 
rudder was narrow, and had been attached to one of the 
sides of the boat. 
A boat in most particulars resembling these, but which 
belonged to the age of iron, was found at Tune, near 
Frederikstad, in Norway. This had still preserved the 
remains of a mast. 
A year or two ago an ancient Viking ship, which had 
been deposited in a grave mound at Sandeherred, in Nor- 
way, was discovered and disinterred for preservation in the 
Museum of Antiquities connected with the University of 
Christiania. Great importance was attached to it. While 
the operation of disinterment was being prosecuted, a 
correspondent of the Hamburgh Correspondent, writing 
from Bergen, said:—‘A measurement made on the 14th 
May showed the length ofthe portion already excavated to 
-be 714 feet, and it is estimated that the total length will 
be about 75 feet. As regards the equipment of the ship, 
it is evident that, when deposited in the grave mound, it 
was as fully armed and equipped as when it lay ready to 
sail on a Viking expedition. So far as can be judged at 
the present stage of the process of excavation, all the 
appliances in use at the time for evolutions at sea are 
represented with quite remarkable completeness. The 
greater part of a mast in good condition remains; the 
entire length of the mast seems to have been about 22 
feet. Remnants of sails and tackle are frequent, as also 
fragments or complete specimens of ships’ utensils and 
divisions, the place and application of which it will be the 
difficult task of antiquarians to solve. Several wooden 
articles of a peculiar form have been found in excellent 
preservation, and executed with remarkable skill. That 
these articles, which-are about one and a-half feet in length, 
