. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTOKR' NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 575 f{)ct, considering the high development to which the smith's art had been cairied, a fact, too, which proves that they must have possessed a great abundance of timber, as they wouhl not otherwise have wasted it to tliat degree only in order to saAC a few nails or to secure the clamps so much Fig. '.17. CoNiNECllON (IF PKOWS WITH IvEEL. (?.. IVoiii C. Kneli- •? Denmark in Karly
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTOKR' NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 575 f{)ct, considering the high development to which the smith's art had been cairied, a fact, too, which proves that they must have possessed a great abundance of timber, as they wouhl not otherwise have wasted it to tliat degree only in order to saAC a few nails or to secure the clamps so much Fig. '.17. CoNiNECllON (IF PKOWS WITH IvEEL. (?.. IVoiii C. Kneli- •? Denmark in Karly ; ''The ribs, which give the ])oat its shape (Fig. 99), are mostly in their natural crooked and irregularly bent shape, and rest ou the clamps projecting from the i)lauks which ftn^n regular rows across the boat, those on one plank exactly corresponding to those on the next. The ribs have perforations correspondiug to the clamps, through which bast roi)es Avere i)assed, tying planks and ribs together (Fig. 100). This is again highly surprising in a nation familiar with the use of iron and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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