. Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries and navigation [microform] : with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them, containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801 ... with a large appendix ... with a general chronological index .... Commerce; Fisheries; Navigation; Commerce; Pêches; Navigation. A, D. ^33' 507 December 23 --Though we know that the Saracens had fome veflels of very great burthe^, as appears by the number of men faid to have been onboard them
. Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries and navigation [microform] : with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them, containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801 ... with a large appendix ... with a general chronological index .... Commerce; Fisheries; Navigation; Commerce; Pêches; Navigation. A, D. ^33' 507 December 23 --Though we know that the Saracens had fome veflels of very great burthe^, as appears by the number of men faid to have been onboard them • we know nothing of their conftrudtion. The Catalans, who fucceeded to their maritime eminence in their port of Barcelona, as has already been noticed, had alio very large veiTels of the kmds called cogs and fhips, fome with two. and fomf with th^ee decks, before the year 13,5 ; and, from the mention of caftles on'he decks It appears moft probable that each of the three decks ran he whole length of the veflels, as in modern three-deck merchantftips By the original articles of agreement, preferved in the^rchives of Sr- celona, it appears that thirteen of the citizens undertook to man a cog ( cocha') of three decks, called the Sent Climent. belonging to the community of the city in order to cruife againft the (^nlk Inl other enemies, the magiftrates agreeing to furnifli bread for the crew and to receive one third of the prizes to be taken, or, in cafe of lofs to* bear one third of It: and the citizens engaged to ftip and pay froS four to five hundred men to find all other provifions except br4d an^ ^ put no cargo onboard her for commercial purpofe., her deftination being merely warhke. From a very copious inventorv of theses nifhed with bows, arrows, fpears. and defenfive armour. But there is no mention of fire-arms One of the thirteen citizens was formally commiflioned by the other twelve to be their captain of the cog7 cZ pitaneum noftrum didte cochs'). and alfo to command
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