A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World
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- A GENERAL PLAN for A MAIL COMMUNICATION BY STEAM, between GREAT BRITAIN and the EASTERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF THE WORLD;
- also, to CANTON AND SYDNEY, WESTWARD BY THE PACIFIC; to which are added, GEOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA, NICARAGUA, &c.
- LONDON; B. FELLOWES, LUDGATE STREET. 1838.
- A GENERAL PLAN FOR CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY STEAM, &c. &c. INTRODUCTION.
- I.
- Fayal.[1]
- II.
- Fayal to New York, by Halifax.
- III.
- (No. 1.)
- (No. 2.)
- (No. 3.)
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- West Indian Station.—Details.
- 1.—First Packet for the Month.
- 2.—Windward Station.
- Advantages.
- RECAPITULATION.
- Cost of Plan by Steam.
- Cost, partly by Steamers and partly by Sailing Packets.
- GENERAL REMARKS.
- Cost of the New System and the Present System.
- I.
- Capital.
- II.
- Remarks.
- III.
- IV.—Income.
- WEST INDIES.—INTERNAL POST OFFICES.
- PACIFIC DEPARTMENT.
- Owhyhee to Sydney.
- Rialejo to Christmas Isle.
- Christmas Isle to Canton.
- Rialejo to Canton.
- Rialejo to Sydney, New South Wales.
- THE MEDITERRANEAN, EAST INDIES, &c. &c.
- 2. Malta and Constantinople.
- EAST-INDIAN DEPARTMENT.
- 4. Suez to Bombay.
- 5. Aden or Socotora to Mauritius.
- 6. Bombay to Calcutta, by Ceylon.
- 7 & 8. Trincomalee to Canton, by Batavia.
- 9. Batavia to Sydney, New South Wales, by Swan River.
- Abstract.
- Expenditure by Steam Power, &c.
- II.
- 1. Falmouth to Cape Verde.
- 2. Cape Verde to the Cape of Good Hope.
- 3. Cape of Good Hope to the Mauritius.
- 5. Point de Galle to Bombay.
- 6. Trincomalee to Calcutta.
- Expenditure by the Cape of Good Hope.
- Income by the Mediterranean.
- Income by Cape of Good Hope.
- GEOGRAPHICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE ISTHMUS OF AMERICA, and the practicability of A COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA AND NEW SOUTH WALES WESTWARD THROUGH IT.
- Lake Nicaragua, &c.
- Great Britain with
- United States with
- General Trade and Tonnage.
- Cost and Revenue.
- Conveyance Mails and Passengers.
- APPENDIX—No I
- Distances and Bearings of Places.
- Comparative Distances of Places.
- CALCULATION OF YEARLY COST OF SAILING PACKETS AND STEAM BOATS.
- I.—Sailing Packets.
- II.—Steam Boats.
- III.—Small Sailing Vessels.
- POSTAGES, PROBABLE AMOUNT, INCREASE, &c.
- Postages and Salaries in West Indies, &c.—1834-5.
- Postages.—Mediterranean, &c.
- ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES OF PACKETS CALCULATED.
- 1.—West Indies.
- 2.—Brazils.
- 3.—Fayal and Halifax Department.
- 4.—North American and West Indian Department.
- Arrivals and Departures of the London Mails of the following dates.
- Speed, &c. of Steam Boats.
- Estimates for Passengers on each Station.
- Income:—Parcels, Packages, and Fine Goods. Steamers to be restricted to 40 tons Weight in all.
- APPENDIX, No. II.—EASTERN WORLD.
- Distances and Bearings of Places.
- Mauritius and Socotora.
- APPENDIX, No. III.—PACIFIC OCEAN.
- Longitudes and Latitudes, Places, &c.
- Bearings and Distances of Places.
- Isthmus of America.
- Chagre and Panama.
- THE END.
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