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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 1418 — FLOATING OF WOOD.

William Johnston translation

Plinius, lib. vi. cap. 56.—Strabo, lib. xvi. where he calls these rafts σχεδίαι.—Festus, p. 432.—Scheffer, De Militia Navali Veterum, lib. i. cap. 3.—Pitisci Lexicon Antiq. Rom. art. Rates.

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