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FISHERMEN'S OWN BOOK. 



Quick Passages, 



^c\\. John D. Gri^d/i, Capt. Gould, left Chatham on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 

 1877, for New York, discharged cargo and was back the following Monday 

 with 6,200 bushels of corn, bound to Danversport. Sch. Anson Siimson, 

 Capt. Sloman, made the passage from Sandy Hook to Matanzas in 18 

 days, in 1877. Sch. Tim Pickering, of Salem, made the voyage from New 

 York to Salem and back in 9 days, in 1877, 5 days of the time being spent 

 in Salem and Gloucester. Bark Charles Stciuart made the passage from 

 Trapani to this port in 43 days, in 1878, being 2)2) days from Gibralter. 

 Sch. Hcnnin Babson made the passage from Canso to Gottenberg in a few 

 hours over 16 days, in 1876. Sch. Centennial, Capt. Philip Johnson, made 

 the passage from Gloucester to Port Mulgrave, a distance of 4S8 miles, in 



1880 in 45 hours. The same year sch. Henry Wilson, Capt. James O. 

 Nauss, made the run from Cape Jack to Georgetown, P. E. I., a distance 

 of 40 miles, in 4 hours, and sch. David A. Story, Capt. Joseph Ryan, made 

 the passage from Gloucester to Grand Menan, a distance of 225 miles, in 

 18 hours. In i86o ship Golden Gate made the pasage from Liverpool, 

 Eng., to San Francisco, in 102 days ; in 1 880-1, ship British General made 

 the same passage in 105 days, being 15 days from the equator into port. In 



188 1 sch. Alice, of Swan's Island, made the run from Boston to Eastport in 

 27 hours, and sch. William H. Jordan, of Taunton, made the passage from 

 Baltimore to Providence in 56 hours. Steamer Adtniral, from New York to 

 Boston, made a run of 9 miles in 27 minutes, and a passage from Glouces- 

 ter to Boston in i hour, 50 minutes. In November, 1881, sch. Lit/u Am- 

 nurmann, of Perth .Vmboy, N. J., Capt. John L. Stiles, made the passage 



