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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 |