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

Note 1421 — FLOATING OF WOOD.

William Johnston translation

Olymp. v. 29. Gesner, in explaining Pindar, translated φάος or φῶς by the word help, which Hebraism occurs in the New Testament, and also in Homer. The stream therefore assisted the inhabitants while under a great inconvenience.

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