PANAMA AND THE PACIFIC. 



In passing within the last few months down 

 the coast of South America, on the Pacific side, 

 from Valparaiso, through Lima to Payta, in the 

 neighbourhood of Guayaquil, and to Panama, 

 and from thence to the Atlantic Ocean across 

 the Isthmus of Darien, I had occasion to 

 observe the truth of representations frequently 

 made to me, by British merchants in those 

 settlements ; how much shorter, and more cer- 

 tain might be the communication of intelligence 

 from t'iose places to England by that route, 

 than by the passage round Cape Horn. That 

 passage in merchant vessels to and from Eng- 

 land direct, averages 



a length of time, which is not only inconvenient 

 for commercial objects, but which in some 

 degree, cuts off the British settler from cor- 



DAYS. 



For Valparaiso 

 . . Lima • . 

 . . Guayaquil 



100 



110 



120 



