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We will now give a few extracts from the earliet information on this 

 subject, which appeared in former editions of this worli. 



East or West of the Cape Verdes.* — With regard to this subject, the 

 Eoyal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and the Meteorological Insti- 

 tute of Utrecht have done good service to the mariner in .their excellent 

 publications. The latter Office published a Table of the Times and Cross- 

 ings of 455 Dutch vessels from the Channel to the Line. To this list the 

 Americans added the sailings of 145 vessels, many of which were probably 

 clippers, so that there was the experience of these 600 vessels to appeal to 

 in the choice of the route in this part of the voyage. 



Number of Vessels, Dutch and American, and their Average Time from the 



Lizard to the Line, by the passage East and by the passage West 



of the Cape Verde Islands. 



December 



January 



February 



Average and sum... 



March 



April 



May 



Averag* and sum... 



June 



July 



August 



Average andsiun... 



September 



October 



November 



Average and sum... 

 Total average and sum 



AMEBIC AN. 



EAsr. 



West. 



Days. Vessels. 



29-5 

 28-6 



27-8 



28-6 



36-7 

 34-5 

 30-2 



33-8 



42-4 

 33-2 

 29-7 



351 



31-5 



4 



a 



2 



Days. 



27 

 31-5 

 28-9 



291 



Vessels. 



2 

 3 



2 



29-7 

 30-6 

 34-5 



31-6 



2 

 4 

 3 



33-3 

 320 

 320 



.32-4 



34 



4 



6 



11 



21 



6 



8 

 12 



26 



17 



9 



11 



37 



14 



10 



3 



27 



30-6 111 



DUTCH. 



East. 



West. 



34-1 



114 



32-9 



341 



It appecirs that the passages East are uniformly longer for the Dutch, except in 

 December, January, June, and October ; and that for the American they give the 

 shorter averages for January, February, March, April, August, and November. But 

 the averages for these are derived from an insufficient number of passages, only two or 

 three, fourteen in all, for each month. 



• It will be seen, in the previous remarks, that Captain Toynbee in no month recom- 

 mends the route Eastward of the Cape Verdes. 



