History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . ixed in the ground,— hence its name. The Koyal standards of the present time arereally square banners, blazoned with the royal arms over the entirefield. THE EARLY USE OF ENSIGNS AND COLOES ONBOARD SHIP. According to Wilkinson and Bonomi, there are no flags depictedupon Egyptian or Assyrian representations of vessels; but in lieu ofa flag c
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . ixed in the ground,— hence its name. The Koyal standards of the present time arereally square banners, blazoned with the royal arms over the entirefield. THE EARLY USE OF ENSIGNS AND COLOES ONBOARD SHIP. According to Wilkinson and Bonomi, there are no flags depictedupon Egyptian or Assyrian representations of vessels; but in lieu ofa flag certain devices are embroidered on thesail, such as a phenix, flowers, &c., whencethe sail bearing the device was called ncs, orensign. The utility of vanes and pennons musthave been soon suggested as a means ofascertaining the direction of the wind. TheIjlazoning them with the arms of the owner or the name of the vesselnaturally followed. Livy mentions that Scipio, 202, was metby a ship of the Carthaginians, garnished with infules, ribbands,and white flags of peace, and beset with branches of olives, &c. Amedal of the time of Antiochus VII., king of Syria, 123, showsa galley without mast or sail, having a swallow-tailed flag, not. OF ANCIENT AND MODERN NATIONS. 25- slung upon a spreader, but hoisted on an ensign-staff abaft. TheProphet Ezekiel, whose prophecies date 600 years , metaphori-cally comparing the maritime city of Tyre to one of the ships bywhich they carried on their commerce, speaks of her banner as madeof fine linen. Pliny tells us that the sterns and prows of trading vessels and men-of-war, without exception, were decorated with colors ; and at Athens,Corinth, and Sicyon the profession of ship-painters founded the famousschool of painters in those cities. At first, merely to preserve the wood, the ship-builders coveredevery part of the vessel exposed to the action of the air and water witha coating of pitch; but this sombre and uniform tint soon we
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