rtha. One powerful
steam-boat would be in time for the same packet; thus:--to Chagres,
550 miles, two and a half days; to Carthagena, 290 miles, one and a
half day; stop there one day; to Santa Martha, ninety miles, one day;
to Jamaica, 420 miles, three days; in all, nine days.

The mails for Honduras and Trinidad de Cuba by the outward packet
having been brought up to Montego Bay, Jamaica, as has been already
stated, a good schooner should proceed thence to Trinidad de Cuba, 172
miles, one and a half days; thence to Honduras, 520 miles, three and a
half days; stop three or more days; back to Montego Bay, by Trinidad
de Cuba, 692 miles, ten days; in all, eighteen days. Two schooners
will perform this work, giving two mails each month.

On the arrival of the steamer at Havannah another steamer should be
despatched with the outward mails for Tampico and Vera Cruz, and from
thence return to Havannah with the return British and Colonial mails.
The course of this boat would be,--to Vera Cruz, 800 miles, three and
a half days; to Tampico and back, 360 miles, stopping two days, four
days; Vera Cruz, back to Havannah, five and a half days; in all,
thirteen days.

The route of the mail conveyance from Barbadoes to Jamaica, &c., by
steamers, would therefore be:--

Geo. Miles. Days.
Barbadoes to St. Thomas 430 2
St. Thomas to Jamaica, by Porto Rico, Cape Nichola,
and St. Jago de Cuba 780 3-1/2
Jamaica to Havannah, by Cape Antonio 685 3
Stop at Havannah 2
Havannah to Jamaica, by Cape Antonio 685 4
Jamaica, Coals 1
Kingston to Cape Nichola Mole, by St. Jago 305 2
Cape Nichola Mole to St. Thomas, by P. Rico 480 3
St. Thomas, Coals 1
St. Thomas to Barbadoes, calling at all Islands 500 4
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Totals 3865 25-1/2
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Each steam-boat being thus twenty-two days, each trip, at sea. (p. 039)

Two powerful boats (240 or 250-horse power each), actively employed,
carrying passengers, pa