"They took soundings, and found it to be twenty fathoms;. little father on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen" "To take. sounding they made use of. line with. lead weight on the end of it. Usually, there were knots on the rope, each. fathom apart" (Reese p. 910). The first sounding revealed 120 feet of water beneath them, probably the other sounding was taken about 30 minutes later and revealed 90 feet. "It is one of the striking proofs of the truth of the Lucan record, that at the rate at which it is calculated that. large ship laying to in. gale would drift in 24 hours, that is 36 miles, multiplied by 14 days, gives 504 miles. And it is 476 miles in. straight line from Crete to Malta" (Reese p. 909).

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