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33098	Holmes, George Charles Vincent, Sir	Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships			.txt	text/plain	44390	2083	72	What is more natural than to suppose that the genius and science which enabled them to build the Pyramids and their vast temples and palaces, to construct huge works for the regulation of the Nile, and to quarry, work into shape, and move into place blocks of granite weighing in some cases several hundreds of tons, should also lead them to excel in the art of building ships? 27.--One of William the Conqueror's ships. 1066 A.D.] It must not be supposed that the art of building ships of larger size, which was, as we have seen, well understood by the Romans, about the commencement of our era, was forgotten.	cache/33098.txt	txt/33098.txt
