A General Plan for A Mail Communication By Steam Author: James M'Queen, Esq

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Author

MacQueen, James, 1778-1870

Title

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

Credits

Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, The Philatelic Digital Library Project at www.tpdlp.net, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Language

English

LoC Class

HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications

Subject

Mail steamers -- Great Britain

Category

Text

eBook-No.

20702

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20702

Release Date

February 27, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A GENERAL PLAN for A MAIL COMMUNICATION BY STEAM, between GREAT BRITAIN and the EASTERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF THE WORLD;
2. 2.also, to CANTON AND SYDNEY, WESTWARD BY THE PACIFIC; to which are added, GEOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA, NICARAGUA, &c. — By JAMES M'QUEEN, Esq . — LONDON; B. FELLOWES, LUDGATE STREET. 1838.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION. — I. — Fayal. [1] — II. — Fayal to New York, by Halifax. — III. — (No. 1.) — (No. 2.) — (No. 3.) — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — West Indian Station. — Details. — 1.— First Packet for the Month . — 2.— Windward Station. — Advantages.
4. 4.RECAPITULATION. — Cost of Plan by Steam. — Cost, partly by Steamers and partly by Sailing Packets .
5. 5.GENERAL REMARKS. — Cost of the New System and the Present System. — I. — Capital. — II. — Remarks. — III. — IV.— Income. — WEST INDIES.—INTERNAL POST OFFICES.
6. 6.PACIFIC DEPARTMENT. — Owhyhee to Sydney. — Rialejo to Christmas Isle. — Christmas Isle to Canton. — Rialejo to Canton. — Rialejo to Sydney, New South Wales. — THE MEDITERRANEAN, EAST INDIES, &c. &c. — 2. Malta and Constantinople. — EAST-INDIAN DEPARTMENT. — 4. Suez to Bombay. — 5. Aden or Socotora to Mauritius. — 6. Bombay to Calcutta, by Ceylon. — 7 & 8. Trincomalee to Canton, by Batavia . — 9. Batavia to Sydney, New South Wales, by Swan River. — Abstract. — Expenditure by Steam Power, &c. — II. — 1. Falmouth to Cape Verde. — 2. Cape Verde to the Cape of Good Hope. — 3. Cape of Good Hope to the Mauritius. — 5. Point de Galle to Bombay. — 6. Trincomalee to Calcutta. — Expenditure by the Cape of Good Hope. — Income by the Mediterranean. — Income by Cape of Good Hope.
7. 7.GEOGRAPHICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE ISTHMUS OF AMERICA, and the practicability of A COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA AND NEW SOUTH WALES WESTWARD THROUGH IT. — Lake Nicaragua, &c. — Great Britain with — United States with — General Trade and Tonnage. — Cost and Revenue. — Conveyance Mails and Passengers.
8. 8.APPENDIX—No I — Distances and Bearings of Places . — Comparative Distances of Places. — CALCULATION OF YEARLY COST OF SAILING PACKETS AND STEAM BOATS. — I.— Sailing Packets. — II.— Steam Boats. — III.— Small Sailing Vessels.
9. 9.POSTAGES, PROBABLE AMOUNT, INCREASE, &c. — Postages and Salaries in West Indies, &c.—1834-5. — Postages.—Mediterranean, &c.
10. 10.ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES OF PACKETS CALCULATED. — 1.— West Indies. — 2.— Brazils. — 3.— Fayal and Halifax Department. — 4.— North American and West Indian Department . — Arrivals and Departures of the London Mails of the following dates . — Speed, &c. of Steam Boats . — Estimates for Passengers on each Station. — Income:—Parcels, Packages, and Fine Goods. Steamers to be restricted to 40 tons Weight in all.
11. 11.APPENDIX, No. II.—EASTERN WORLD. — Distances and Bearings of Places. — Mauritius and Socotora.
12. 12.APPENDIX, No. III.—PACIFIC OCEAN. — Longitudes and Latitudes, Places, &c. — Bearings and Distances of Places. — Isthmus of America. — Chagre and Panama. — THE END.

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