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vance; beginning from aTriremis, andfhewiog, how many 
Oars and Sea-mea it contained 5 nameiy two hundred , of 
which one hundred and eighty were Rowers, and the reft 
Marriners. So chat in the Athenian FleeCj of which Com was 
General 3 confifting of one hundred and eighty Triremes^ 
there were fiscand thirty thotiflmd Men* Then proceeding 
to a ^inque'-remis.whh four hundred and twenty Men apiecej 
of which there were Rowers three hundred, and Souldiers 
one hundred and twenty* So that three things were itupendi- 
ous in that l{oman Fleet at Mejfina , and the Carthagmian at 
Lylihum -y one is, that the former confifted of three hundred 
and thirty ^ and the latter of three hundred and fifty Ships, 
mo&,^iiin^r/eremes, that is, an hundred and fifcy feec iong; 
the fecond^ that the number of Men, they contained ^ was 
one hundred and thirty thoufand , and one hundred and fifty 
thoufand Meo^ the third^ the apparams and provifion necef- 
fary : Yet alhhis affirmed by one of the beft of the ancient 
Hiftorians , Folybius » who himfelf wonders at fueh a vaft 
Equipage*- 
Here the Author undertaketh ^ out of Polybius ^ Plutarch^ 
^nd Livy, to Tc£ateSalma/us^ affirming, that hardly any Gal» 
leys were built or equipped bigger than of Nine Tires ^ called 
Hence he proceeds to the Ships of Eleven Rows (lf«A)twpH?,) 
and of fifteen Rows (^mylin^cuAm^ni -y) and to one of Sixteen 
Having difpatched thefe particulars (of which we leave Cu- 
rious and Learned Antiquaries , and good Naval Architeds ■ 
to judge) hcpropofeth the^/^/w/fef/f of thefe his [nventionSj 
after thatj by the means of them, both the Strudiure and Or- 
dering of Ancient Shipping hath been explained ; and is of 
opinion, that the Mi?ii^r;i Galleys and Galleafles might, ac-^ 
cording to his Model, be more conveniently built , both for 
celerity^ ftrength, and leiTer expences. He thinks, that the 
Modern form would be better 5 if in the Scrufcure the pro- 
portion of the long Ships of the Antients were obferved. 
And he conceiveth alfo, that Five men fitting at one Oar in 
the 
