A good word for Noah's prescience as a ship builder is found in an allusion to his Ark in "Nautieus." "It would not be a difficult task," says that journal, "to pick out of Lloyd's Register many ships built within the last twenty years whose dmensions suggest a. form closely resembling that of Noah's Ark. According; to the dimensions piven in the Bible, as translated in terms of modern measurement, the 'Ark was 480 foot long, 80 feet wide, and 48 feet deep. Her tonnage was 11,413, nnd ehe hid plenty of room for pairs of all the distinct species of onimals that a.ro, massed by Buffon-244-and she should I have accommodated 1000 persons, and then had plenty of room for the storage of supplies."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 73, 20 December 1918, Page 5
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