in
particular. These would be incalculably great, both to the governments
and to the people. To complete the scheme, it would be requisite to
have more than one station at which boats and machinery could be
repaired. These would require to be Malta, in the Mediterranean,
Bombay, Trincomalee, Batavia, and Sydney, in all five places; the
salaries, &c. for superintendents, rents, and rent coal depots, could
not be less than 2000_l._ per annum at each, or 10,000_l._ The expense
for workmen and materials are included in the 5 per cent. allowed for
tear and wear in the annual expenditure for each boat.

The yearly expenditure for the whole Plan, in all its parts, would
consequently be as follows, and under the respective heads as here
enumerated.

_Abstract._

No. 1. Falmouth to Alexandria, by Lisbon, &c.
2. Malta to Constantinople, by Zante, &c.
3. Alexandria to Suez, by Cairo.
4. Suez to Bombay, by Mocha.
5. Socotora to Mauritius.
6. Bombay to Calcutta, by Ceylon.
7 & 8. Trincomalee to Canton, by Batavia, &c.
9. Batavia to Sydney, New South Wales, by Swan River, &c.
10. Coal depots, and stations for repairs.

_Expenditure by Steam Power, &c._ (p. 072)

--------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------+------+-------
| |Provi- | | | | | |Number
Number | Fixed | sions |Tons of| Price |Cost of| Total |Number| of
of |Capital|Wages, | Coals | Coals | Coals |Expendi-| of |Sailing
Station.| re- | &c. |Yearly.| per |Yearly.| ture |Steam-| Ves-
|quired.|Yearly.| | ton. | | Yearly.| ers. | sels.
--------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------+------+-------
| L | L | | s. | L | L | |
1 | 72,000| 18,600| 20,400| 25 | 25,600| 44,200| 3 | "
2 | 24,000| 6,200| 5,000| " | 6,250| 12,450| 1 | "
3 | " | 5,000| " | " | " | 5,000| " | "
4 | 72,000| 20,460| 25,200| 40 | 50,400| 70,860| 3 | "
5 | 8,000| 4,000| " | " | " | 4,000| " | 2
6 | 48,000| 13,640| 14,400| " | 28,800| 42,240| 2 | "
7 & 8 | 98,000| 28,280| 21,600| " | 43,200| 71,480| 4 | 1
9 | 96,000| 27,280| 25,200| " | 50,400| 77,680| 4 | "
10 | " | 10,000| | " |