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Title: Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ...
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Goodrich, Frank B. (Frank Boott), 1826-1894
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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rcising his peculiar gift: it would certainly have been morenatural to afford some comfort to his weather-beaten children.The legend even goes on to state that he at once fixed a polein the middle of the canoe, and, attaching to it a piece of cloth,invented the first sail-boat. Mythology assigns a different,though similar, origin to the invention:—Iris, seeking her sonin a bark which she impelled by oars, perceived that the windinflated her garments and gently forced her in the direction inwhich she was going. No research would bring the investigator to conclusionsmore satisfactory than these. The fact would still remain,that the first mention in profane history of constructions movingupon the water, is many centuries subsequent to the periodin which the idea of building such constructions must be pre-sumed to have been first conceived. It would consequently beidle to devote more space to this subject; and we proceed atonce, therefore, to the first of recorded ventures upon the sea.
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t • CHAPTER III. THE FLOOD AND THE BUILDING OF THE ARK—THE ARGUMENTS OF INFIDELITY AGAINST A UNIVERSAL DELUGE THE MATERIAL OF WHICH THE ARK WAS BUILT—ITS CAPACITY, DIMENSIONS, AND FORM—ITS PROPORTIONS COPIED INMODERN OCEAN STEAMERS. The earliest mention of the sea made in history occurs in thefirst chapter of Genesis. During the period of chaos, and beforethe creation of light, darkness was upon the face of the deep,and the Spirit of God moved upon - the face of the waters.Upon the third day the waters under the heavens were gatheredtogether in one place and were called Seas; the dry land appearedand was called Earth. The waters were commanded to bringforth abundantly the moving creature that hath life; and, uponthe creation of man in the image of God, dominion was given himover the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, and every creepingthing that creepeth upon the earth. In the year of the world 1556—according to the generallyaccepted computation—God determined to destro

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