2io HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

of Cleopatra or Caligula, the galley of Venice, even so early as the ninth cen-tury, might be said to exceed them, in all points, which did not, as was mani-fest in the former instances, as well as others which occurred in the earlierages of the world, militate against real use, and the actual necessities, if theymay be so termed, of a state of war, and inveterate hostility.

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