Note 861 — Chapter XXVII · FISHERIES—ATTEMPTED CORRELATION OF THE PRICE OF FISH THEN AND NOW—SPAWNING
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See Grenfell and Hunt, Tebtunis Papyri, II. 180-1, and I. 49-50. Also Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka, I. 137 ff. The craft employed were usually primitive rafts or canoes made of papyrus canes bound together with cords of the same plant. Theophrastus, Hist. Plantarum, IV. 8, 2, alludes to them. Pliny, N. H., VII. 57, speaks of Nile boats made of papyrus, rushes and reeds, while Lucan, IV. 136, refers to them in
“Conseritur bibula Memphitis cymba papyro.”