CHAP. XL.] EETUHN TO LIVERPOOL. 371 



The speed of our steamer had been constantly 

 increasing as the weight of coal diminished. The 

 length of the voyage, therefore, to America might 

 be considerably abridged if the quantity of coal were 

 lessened by a day and a half s consumption, the 

 steamer starting from the West of Ireland, to which 

 passengers might be conveyed in a few hours, by 

 steam-boat and railway, from Liverpool. 



June 13., Saturday. Anchored off Liverpool at 

 half-past ten o clock in the evening, having made 

 the passage from Boston in twelve days and a half, 

 it being nine months and nine days since we left 

 that port. 



