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the Lateral Rowers5 as that he that fits behind an other, may 
move his hands and Od^vunderih^ leat ot the rower fitting 
next before him: By which means three lateral Rowersjwhich, 
according to Scaligers way, would require the height ot 
I9f feet, will be content with the fpace of 7^ feet. By the 
c^/w Invention,which he novp adds,he pretends to have found 
a new place in thole Ships for almoft half the number of 
Rowers 5 forafmuch as on the fide of tjie aforefaid Rowers, 
he placeth others in the middle of the Ship , in trauflris or tra- 
verfe Seats 5 which, as he imagines, ( how confonantly to ufe 
and pracSiice, the Intelligent foon will judge) may thruft out 
their Oars under the Seats of the Lateral Rewers. By which 
contrivance he thinks is gain'd in a §luivqueremij the Ipace of 
nine feet in height: which, he faith, Scaiiger^ if alive, would 
admire. And to all this he fubjoyns fome paffages out of 
•ancient Authors , which he conceives do much ftrengthen 
the fitnefs of thefe Inventions of his , concerning both the 
placing of the Lateral Rowers, and ihofe that fit m tranfiris. 
Here he infertsthe Explication of tho/e names of Thalamtta, 
Zygita^'^wAThranita^ m tht Trir emi j ; the firft fignifying him 
that fits in the loweft row ^ the fecond , him that fus in Tran- 
flris'^ the third, him that fits uppermoft* 
After thiSj he inquireth , 'Whether ever fuch great Veflels 
of fo many tires of Oars, fitting in fo many different height?, 
were ever adually built And, if they were. Whether 
they ever came abroad to Fight } Efpecially fuch an one as 
th^t of Philopaters is recorded to have been ^ of forty tires, 
requiring above four thoufand Rowers j and that of Ptole- 
m(€us PbiUdelphus ^ thniy tires 5 having more than three 
thoufand Rowers 5 and another of twenty rows, requiring 
two thoufand. Hereupon our Author fcruples not to affirm 
all to be true , what is written of fuch vaft Ships j adding, 
that he hath made it intelligible, how it may be fo, by finding 
places for the Zy^/^^, and a conveniency of moving their 
Oars under the Seats of thofe that fate next before them. 
And here he fliews at large , of what determinate bignefs 
thofe VelTels were , according to his fiippoficion and contri- 
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