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Title: A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World

Author: James MacQueen

Release Date: February 27, 2007 [EBook #20702]

Language: English

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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.

With Charts.

By JAMES M'QUEEN, Esq.

LONDON;
B. FELLOWES, LUDGATE STREET.
1838.

Startling as the subject of connecting China and New South Wales (p. vi)
with Great Britain, through the West Indies, may at first sight
appear, both as regards time and expense, still few things are more
practicable. The labour and expense of crossing the Isthmus of
America, either by Panama or by Lake Nicaragua, by a land conveyance,
is trifling. With eight steam-boats, ONLY FOUR ADDITIONAL to the
number already in the West Indies, added to the present sailing-packet
establishment, the whole