 | Charles Rollin - 1853 - 476 pages
...of the sea to the other. When this part of the work was finished, quite over the vessels lengthwise, and over the cables we have been speaking of, they...rails or battlements on each side, that the horses and catuV might not be frightened with seeing the sea in their passage. Such was the construction of those... | |
 | Leonidas I (king of Sparta.) - Greece - 1854 - 80 pages
...vessels lengthwise, reached from one side of the sea to the other, and over these cables were laid trunks of trees, cut purposely for that use, and flat boats again over them fastened together, to serve as a floor or solid bottom, all of which were covered over with earth and rails... | |
 | John Davis Billings - United States - 1887 - 452 pages
...and over the cables just described, they laid the trunks of trees cut for that purpose, and planks again over them, fastened and joined together to serve...that the horses and cattle might not be frightened at seeing the sea in their passage." Compare this bridge of Xerxes with that hereinafter described,... | |
 | John Davis Billings - Ambulances - 1887 - 440 pages
...and over the cables just described, they laid the trunks of trees cut for that purpose, and planks again over them, fastened and joined together to serve...that the horses and cattle might not be frightened at seeing the sea in their passage." Compare this bridge of Xerxes with that hereinafter described,... | |
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... they laid the trunks of trees, cut purposely for that use, and flat boats again over them, fastened and joined together, to serve as a kind of floor Or solid bottom : all which they covered over with earth, and added rails or battlements on each side,... 
