Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 37 | 60 | In the View more quotes about vicinity">vicinity of the camp, as she was under construction, the river had been deepened, to accommodate her keel near shore. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 37 | 57 | Given the absence of empirical precedents it had not been clear how responsive she would be to the helm. |
| 37 | 58 | But she needed not half the length. |
| 37 | 59 | To be sure, she had not yet nested her galleys, taken on her crew, her supplies, all that she might care to contain. |
| 37 | 60 | In the vicinity of the camp, as she was under construction, the river had been deepened, to accommodate her keel near shore. |
| 37 | 61 | Soundings had been taken, months ago, before construction had begun, to determine that the Alexandra would be navigable, as charts claimed, to Thassa herself. |
| 37 | 62 | To be sure, in many places she must seek the center of the river. |
| 37 | 63 | Elsewhere she would feel her way by multiple soundings, sometimes between bars, called upward from small boats preceding her. |
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Given the absence of empirical precedents it had not been clear how responsive she would be to the helm.
But she needed not half the length.
To be sure, she had not yet nested her galleys, taken on her crew, her supplies, all that she might care to contain.
In the vicinity of the camp, as she was under construction, the river had been deepened, to accommodate her keel near shore.
Soundings had been taken, months ago, before construction had begun, to determine that the Alexandra would be navigable, as charts claimed, to Thassa herself.
To be sure, in many places she must seek the center of the river.
Elsewhere she would feel her way by multiple soundings, sometimes between bars, called upward from small boats preceding her.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)