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An Aecompt of fome Books, 
L SCHEEPS'BOFPF en BEST1EJ{, thatis^ NAVAL 
CHlTECrvl{E and CONDVCTi %N.Wit(en, f tinted ac 
Amfterdamj 1671. in FoL 
THe Ingenious and Induftrious Author of this Work 
having confidered with himfelf, that his Coantry^menj 
though fo flourifliing in Navigation and Naval ArchitecSure, 
had yet publiflied nothing of that fubjedt, except what De 
Heer fjaje^s had written of the Politie of Shipping, did re* 
foive with himfelf to break that filence, and to communicate 
uoto the World aHiftory both of thQ Ancient smd Modern v/2iy 
o( Building, Equipping^ znd Governing of Ships 'j which defign 
having been by him put in execution in this Book, he therein 
largely treateth not only of the Manner of the Naval Archi- 
te<aare ufed by the Creeps and l{omans^ together v^ith their 
Naval Exercifes, Battles, Difciptioc.Laws andCuftoms 5 but 
alfoof the Method and Way ufed at this day both in hisorpa 
Country, England, France^ ^nd the Indie j, together with the 
difference there is betwjeen the Manner of Building Ships, 
pracStifed by Others^ from that of the Dutcb^ and particularly 
of the way of Equipping their Ships, and the manner 
of Building Galleys : All inriched with an ample Seamans 
Didionary, and a great number of Illuftrating Diagrams, 
The whole Work is divided into Two main Parts j The 
Firfi contains XIX Chapters > whereof, 
I. Civcthan account of the firft Builders of Ships, and in 
general of the Building of the Antients,both before and after 
the Delegej where the Author particularly difcourfeth of 
Noah's Arl^y of divers Ships found deep under ground; of 
riie ftrucSture of the Ship Argo -^ of the Navigation of the 
Whenimans,JihodiansXorinthians,yEgyptians^Tyrians, Cretians, &c. 
^Delivers the Way of the Naval Architedure of the Gmks^ 
and Romans^ both for War and Commerce , together with 
the manner of Equipping their Ships row*d with Oars, both 
" ^fingle and manifold fianks^^ and the fitting of the Rowers 0°: 
Whexs 
