---- 15,865
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Falmouth to Port Culebra, by Barbadoes, &c. 5530
Port Culebra to Jeddo, Japan 7250
---- 12,780
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Falmouth to Cape of Good Hope, by Madeira 6205
Cape of Good Hope by Batavia, &c. to Jeddo 8300
---- 14,505
------
Falmouth to Rialejo by Barbadoes, &c. 5530
Rialejo to Manilla 8860
---- 14,390
------
Falmouth to Cape of Good Hope, by Madeira 6205
Cape of Good Hope to Manilla, by Batavia 6720
---- 12,925
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Falmouth to Rialejo, by Barbadoes, &c. 5530
Rialejo to Kamschatka 6000
---- 11,530
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Falmouth to Cape of Good Hope, by Madeira 6205
Cape of Good Hope to Batavia 5200
Batavia to Kamschatka by Canton 4530
---- 15,935
------
London to Icy Cape, over the Pole 3870
Icy Cape to Kamschatka 1280
---- 5,150
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Thus it is evident, that were the passage over the North Pole open (p. 108)
and practicable at all seasons, but which it is not, the route by
it would be so much shorter for every part from Europe to the ports in
Asia and in America, situated on the Northern Pacific, as to be vastly
preferable; but when it is recollected that this passage can only be
open for a very few months in the course of the year--and also
considering the winds and the weather which, during that brief space
of time, would certainly be met with in the northern route, and the
utter impossibility that there would be of procuring any assistance in
that route, should accidents occur,--it is clea