The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul

With Dissertations on the Life and Writings of St. Luke, and the Ships and Navigation of the Ancients

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The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul

With Dissertations on the Life and Writings of St. Luke, and the Ships and Navigation of the Ancients

Fourth Edition, Revised and Corrected
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James Smith's most enduring monument is his great work, "The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul, and Dissertation on the Life and Writings of St. Luke, and the Ships and Navigation of the Ancients," a book which has gone through many editions and has received an amount of unanimous approval, not only in this country but on the Continent of Europe and in the United States, which has rarely fallen to the lot of the work of any Biblical scholar. It is now thirty-six years since it was published, and it is still the recognized authority on the subjects of which it treats. From the very first its value was unhesitatingly acknowledged by the critics of the day. The "Edinburgh Review" said of it - "The book is full of solid proof and valuable suggestion, and we may safely say that a more valuable original contribution to Biblical knowledge has not been made by any countryman of ours during the present century." The "Quarterly," and other leading Reviews, not only in Great Britain but in America and Germany, wrote in the same strain. Dr. Whewell affirmed that no "finer piece of demonstrative writing has appeared since the time of Paley," and Professor Sedgewick, after his first perusal of it, wrote to Sir Charles Lyell - "It is one of the most remarkable critical works that ever was written . . . . It is as clear as crystal and as demonstrative as Euclid."

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Table of Contents

Page page
Preface
Page n10
Note by Editor
Page n22
List of Illustrations
Page n26
Memoir of the Author
Page n30
Introduction
Page n36
Dissertation on the Life and Writings of St. Luke
Page n54
NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE.
chapter.
I. Cæsarea to Myra
Page n116
II. Myra to Fair Havens in Crete
Page 74
III. Crete to Melita—the Gale
Page n158
IV. The Shipwreck
Page n192
V. Melita to Italy
Page 148
DISSERTATIONS.
I. On the Wind Euroclydon
Page 159
II. On the Island Melita
Page 162
III. On the Ships of the Ancients
Page 181
IV. On the Geological Changes in St. Paul's Bay
Page 245
APPENDIX
I. Extract from the Journal of the Yacht 'St. Ursula,' Hugh Tennant, Esq.
Page 251
II. Part Second of ditto
Page n342
III. On Euro-aquilo (from Bentley)
Page 271
IV. Note on the Reading 'Euro-Aquilo' (from Granville Penn)
Page 273
V. Note on Melita (from Bochart's 'Chanaan')
Page 276
VI. Note on 'Adria' (by the Editor of this Edition)
Page 280
INDEX
Page 285
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Portrait of the Author
Page n7
VIEWS.
Page To face p.
I. Fair Havens, Crete
Page 81
From a view taken on the spot by Signor Antonio Schranz, of Valetta.
II. Point of Koura. By Admiral Smyth
Page 130
III. St. Paul's Bay, Malta, from the South
Page 132
From a view taken on the spot by the Author.
IV. The Situation of the Ship on the Fifteenth Morning.
Page 141
CHARTS.
I. General Chart
Page n115
II. Lutro (Port Phenice), (Admiralty chart.)
Page 90
III. Part of the South Coast of Crete
Page n157
IV. St. Paul's Bay, Malta
Page 129
By Admiral Smyth, R.N., F.R.S.
V. Fair Havens
Page 262
VI. Lasea
Page 268
The two last were taken by actual survey in Mr. Tennent's yacht, by himself and the master.
WOODCUTS.
Page page
The Ship of Theseus
Page 135
From the 'Pitture antiche d'Ercolano,' t. ii. tav. xiv. p. 91.
Figure of a Ship
Page 191
Taken from an ancient bath in the Borghese Collection, by M. Jal, 'Arch. Nav.' i. 21
An African Wheat Ship under Sail
Page 201
From a coin of the Emperor Commodus, in the Museum at Avignon, from a drawing by the Author.
Coin of the Emperor Commodus (large brass)
Page 202
Representing an African wheat ship under sail, from the Cabinet du Roi.
Ship on the Tomb of Nævoleia Tyche, at Pompeii
Page 206
From sketches and measurements made on the spot by the Author.
The Ship of Theseus
Page 207
Ancient Anchor
Page 210
Engraved from a sulphur impression of a coin of Adrian in the British Museum.
A Bireme
Page 228
From a coin of Adrian in the British Museum.
A Trireme under Sail
Page 229
From a coin of Adrian in the Cabinet du Roi.

Edition Notes

"Editions of authors referred to in the dissertation on the ships of the ancients": p. 237-244.
Includes appendices and index. Publisher's ad at end.

Microfilm (master negative). Chicago : Reproduced by the Department of Photoduplication, University of Chicago Library, for the American Theological Library Association Board of Microtext, 1977. -- 1 reel ; 35 mm. -- (ATLA T45)
Original in the Princeton Theological Seminary Library.
LC card number of original : 29-4176.

Another copy on Internet archive at http://www.archive.org/stream/voyageandshipwr03smitgoog

Published in
London
Series
ATLA Historical Monographs Collection. Series 1 (13th Century to 1893).; (ATLA monograph preservation program ; ATLA film 1984- )

Classifications

Library of Congress
BS2505 .S53 1880

Contributors

Editor
Walter E. Smith
Printer
Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square and Parliament Street, London
Preface
Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xlviii, 293, [1], 2 p., [11] leaves of plates : front. (port.), ill. (some woodcuts), charts (1 fold.) ; 20 cm. (8º)
Number of pages
372

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6725019M
Internet Archive
voyageshipwrec00smit
ISBN 10
0837001617
ISBN 13
9780837001616
LCCN
29004176
OCLC/WorldCat
5247321, 221606517, 642078846, 681439978, 253620060, 745967865, 504729144, 776491868, 482521776
amazon.co.uk_asin
B0010OH6NE
Google
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Canadian National Library Archive
30207483, 24871984
Oxford University Bodleian Library Aleph System Number
014463887
British Library
003418995
Harvard University Library
012178879, 002250259
Library Thing
5656655

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