the Mediterranean waters, would suggest the idea of
navigation. They would, at first, be hollowed out
with hatchets and adzes, or else with fire; and, later
on, the canoes thus produced would form the models
for the earliest efforts in shipbuilding. The great
length, however, would soon be found unnecessary,
and the canoe would give place to the boat, in the

EARTHENWARE MODEL OF BOAT, FROM AMATHUS.

ordinary acceptation of the term. There are models
of boats among the Phoenician remains which have a
very archaic character, ¹ and may give us some idea
of the vessels in which the Phoenicians of the remoter
times braved the perils of the deep. They have
a keel, not ill shaped, a rounded hull, bulwarks, a
beak, and a high seat for the steersman. The oars,

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