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| 29 | 213 | The sea gate View more quotes about itself">itself was fifty feet in height, large enough, when the barred latticework was lifted, to accommodate a masted cargo galley. |
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| 29 | 210 | I could see them rearing some hundred feet above us. |
| 29 | 211 | We nosed toward the sea gate, our oars scarcely entering the water. |
| 29 | 212 | I could see a lamp lit on a wall, more than three hundred feet within, inside the sea gate. |
| 29 | 213 | The sea gate itself was fifty feet in height, large enough, when the barred latticework was lifted, to accommodate a masted cargo galley. |
| 29 | 214 | It was reinforced on two sides with keeplike towers. |
| 29 | 215 | The tower on the right, as I faced the gate, housed the windlass which lifted and lowered the gate. |
| 29 | 216 | It was turned by prisoners and slaves, chained to its bars, but these men, without the assistance of the gigantic counterweights, also within the tower, could not have moved it. |