DESCRIPTION OF ARABIA. 



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andria in twenty-four days, and at Suez, with proper 

 supplies of fuel, in three weeks. The voyage from 

 Bombay to Aden (1640 miles) was performed in 

 December 1830, in ten days and nineteen hours.* 



TABLE OF GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS. 



* British India, vol. iii.(a) It appears from the published cor- 

 respondence which took place in October, 1832, between Mr. 

 Barrow of the Admiralty and Messrs. Larpent and Begbie, the 

 chairman and secretary of the East India Trade Committee, 

 that the idea of this steam communication has been abandoned 

 on account of the expense. But it is probable the project wil. 

 be revived so soon as parliament comes to a final arrangement 

 on the question respecting the East India Company's privileges. 

 On this subject, to which we shall afterward advert, see "Re- 

 marks on the Advantages and Practicabilitv of Steam Naviga- 

 tion from England to India," by Capt. C. F. Head ; " Reports 

 on the Navigation of the Euphrates," by Capt. Chesney ; ana 

 " An Account of Steam-vessels, &c. in British India," by G. 

 A. Prinseps. 



(a) Vol. XLIX. Family Library. 



