2? 



malheureusement c'est beaucoup moins considerable que je ne Paurais 

 voulu. 



" J'ai rhonneur d' etre, Monsieur, 



' ' Yotre serviteur tres humble, 



" A. Jal. 



" Le volume que j'ai rhonneur de vous signaler est orne de gravures, 

 et a la page 156 se trouve nne coupe de la trireme avec ses avirons, qui 

 fera fort bien comprendre ce qui a 6te execute dans la construction de 

 la trireme imperiale, et qui a tres bienreussi, — car la trireme marchait 

 tres bien, et elle eut marche mieux encore siles rameurs avaient ete de 

 ces rem iff es Eomains, des gens que l'habitude de vivre sous et au soleil, 

 et un long usage des rames rendaient si forts et si capables de longues 

 fatigues. JSos matelots de Cherbourg etaient bons et solide?, mais quelle 

 difference avec ceux qui maniaient la rame sur la mer Ionienne et sur 

 les cotes de Carthage !" 



By the kindness of a friend at Cherbourg, I was enabled to procure 

 a photograph of the French Galley for the Academy, an outline of which 

 is here given, and which has been engraved in the " Illustrated London 

 News:"— 



Up to the present time, no fewer than six theories concerning the 

 rowers have been put forward. 



The first solution of the question has been founded on a passage from 

 the Emperor Leo, and quoted by Morisotus, in his "Orbis Maritimus :" — 



" Every ship inust have its due length, 

 Having two ranks of oars, the one higher than the other." 



The difficulty in this case is manifestly, assuming one range of oars 

 higher than the other, to have been one perpendicularly over the other — 

 a system totally impracticable. 



