My uncle has a stately pleasure barge, Gilded and gay, adorn'd with wondrous charge; The mast is polish'd, and the sails are fine, The awnings of white silk like silver shine; The seats of crimson sattin, where the rowers Keep time to music with their painted oars; In this on holydays we oft resort To Richmond, Twickenham, or to Hampton Court.

Will they not by their very height and staunchness be more difficult for their rowers to move and less obedient to their pilots?

On the one side the pilots and the rowers endured the most annoyance and fatigue, and on the other the marines: and the one side resembled cavalry, now making a charge, now withdrawing, on account of the manoeuvres on their part in assaulting and backing water, and the other was like heavy-armed men guarding against the approach of foes and trying as much as possible to hold them.

Turkish Rowers.

The rowers are splendid-looking fellows from two to four in number, each man with two light sculls, and they sit lightly on thwarts on the same level with the gunwale of the caique.

Nothing can exceed the delightful sensation of the motion; and the skill of the rowers in swiftly turning, and avoiding contact with the myriads of caiques is astonishing.

But, looking back in a few seconds, Mr. Raleigh observed that the exhausted rowers had made scarcely a yard's distance.

The boats themselves are extremely neat, and the rowers expert, cheerful, and animated.

One of the rowers made a quick movement with his hand.

Headed by the tide, and deserted by the breeze, she soon dropped an anchor, in the pass between Connanicut and Rhodes, when a boat was seen making for the inner harbour, impelled by the arms of six powerful rowers.

In the Straits of Sunda, several barques, manned by negroes and Malays, had become entangled in the masses of seaweed which are every where floating on the surface of the wave; Stradling encountered them, made the rowers enter his ship, and obligingly took the barques in tow, to extricate them from their difficulty.

"Another, Fred" At this moment a withering volley was poured upon the boat, and a savage yell of agony followed, while the rowers who remained unhurt paused for an instant as if paralyzed.

In the afternoon, refreshed and rested, we went down to the shore, where our host had arranged for a state-owned boat and four rowers to be in waiting.

In the bows of each sat a company of people singing as they pulled at the long oars; and in the stern of each, divided from the rowers by the cargobut what that cargo was could not yet be distinguishedstood a solitary steersman.

As the whistle sounded the singing ceased abruptly, the steersmen thrust over their tillers in a flurry, and of the rowers some were still backing water as the boats drifted close, escaping collision by a few yards.

Arthur Miles and Tilda stared down upon the faces of the rowers.

The rowers had fallen to singing againmen and maidens in harmony as they pulled 'The ransom'd sons of God, All earthly things we scorn, And to our high abode With songs of praise return! . .

The rowers in the leading boat were sevenfour young men and three young women; and they pulled two to an oarall but the bowman, a young giant of eighteen or thereabouts, who did without help.

The second and third boats had half a dozen rowers apiece.

By this the hunted stag gained another respite, for as the rowers pulled in his wake they had to pause half a dozen times and haul on board a hound that appeared on the point of sinking.

He had his knife ready, and the rowers too had a rope ready to lasso the stags' antlers when they caught up with him.

In our boat there were seven or eight men to row, and three or four more with the captain to fight; and as the rowers could not defend themselves from the javelins, they were forced to quit the oars to handle their targets.

It had twenty banks of rowers, three decks, and space to hold a library, a gymnasium, gardens with trees in them, stables, and baths, and towers for assault, and it was provided by Archimedes with many ingenious mechanical devices.

Accordingly he set out with his most intimate friends and twenty-four rowers in his own double canoe, accompanied by Keaweaheulu in another canoe, and followed by friends and retainers in other canoes.

When his boat entered a fjord where they were fishing, and his rowers shouted out that the good priest had come who had news of God, they dropped their work and flocked out to meet him.