he European mails from the Bahamas,
from Jamaica, Cuba, &c. &c., and thence, with the whole, on the
seventeenth day, proceed direct, according as may be determined, to
Fayal or to Falmouth, calling at Crooked Island to pick up the return
mails from the Bahamas, if it shall be found that those cannot be got
up in time by the sailing schooners to Cape Nichola Mole.[6]

[Footnote 6: Whenever steamers are appointed to
carry the mails from Falmouth to Barbadoes, the
arrival of the packet at that island will be so
regular, that Jamaica _might_ be made (should this
be considered advantageous) the headquarters, as it
were, for the steamers in that quarter of the
world. Four would then be sufficient for the work
between Barbadoes and Vera Cruz; two to run between
Jamaica and Vera Cruz, by the Havannah, and two
between Jamaica and Barbadoes, by St. Thomas. The
latter two would be each fifteen days at sea
monthly, and the former two seventeen days,
exclusive of partial stoppages; so that there would
be abundance of time for rest and repairs. Further,
under such circumstances, the packet with the
European return mails would have time to run
through the islands and pick up all the mails;
meeting, on the second day after her departure from
Trinidad, and on the ninth after reaching
Barbadoes, at St. Lucia, the steamer from Guiana,
with the Guiana, Tobago, and Barbadoes return
mails; and proceeding onward through all the
islands, to the northward and westward, St. Thomas
and Porto Rico included, pass from that island
through the Mona Passage, and call at Jacmel for a
mail, reaching Jamaica in fourteen days. From
thence starting without delay, and going by St.
Jago de Cuba and Cape Nichola, leave the latter
place on the seventeenth day for Fayal, exactly in
the same time that it is calculated it could do
under the other arrangement. But such an