ABSTRACT
Another dispute is, how it was possible to transport so vastly weighty things from Egypt to Rome as one of those stones are, they having then no such ships as we have now, their byremes and tryremes being but pittiful boats, yet sufficient to make them masters of the seas in those times. There are several treatises on this subject,2 and the most probable that I fmd is, that they were brought upon warffs or raffts of many pines and firs, fastened by art together, and, the stones being laid upon them, they, with a stearer or two or three at the end of those raffts, came terra, terra, terra (as the Italians term it) along the coast, or, at least, from promontory to promontory, until they came to Ostia and so IO miles up the Tyber to Rome. Many long and large warfes or rafts of these firs and pine trees I have found troublesome to our boats on the Danube, the Rone or Rhodanus, on the Rhine, and Elve, down which rivers an infinite abundance of that tymber pas seth daily thus fastened together, and on some of them they build 2 or 3 little hutts or cabans and dress their meat. Thus as to these pyramids' transport.
