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INTRODUCTION.
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Sound to different parts of the world, with the average time occupied in the voyage by a fast-sailing vessel. It is here subjoined:—

FROM THE COCKBURN SOUND.

Distance. Wind. Time.
Days.
To Timor 1,500 S.E. 12
Java 1,700 13
Madras 3,400 30
Ceylon 3,100 28
Mauritius 3,400 21
Cape of Good Hope 5,003 31
England—the passage
may be made in

84
Van Diemen's Land 2,200 S.W. 42
Port Jackson 2,600 50