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the steamer to reach her destination: more- 

 over, there is danger in a sea-way of a single 

 engine hanging on the centre. It would also 

 be desirable, that the engines should be worked 

 on the expansive principle, so that twenty or 

 thirty horse-power should always be held in 

 reserve ; the engines will thereby be relieved 

 from straining, and, when great exertions become 

 necessary, the means are at hand. The calibre 

 of all the engines should be the same, and such 

 duplicates furnished as may be necessary. 



Fiscal Arrangements* 



It will require both labour and experience 

 to establish a well-digested code of regulations 

 for this department ; the statements, as laid 

 down in Schedule B,-^ together with the rates of 

 freight, as stated in Table C, were made for the 

 object of showing the practicability of sustaining 

 the proposed establishment of steam navigation, 

 and not with a view of fixing any arbitrary 

 rule : the policy and propriety of the proposed 

 reductions will doubtless be obvious to all ; but 

 in the future arrangements, it will be necessary 

 not only to consult time and distance, but also 

 certain circumstances of a peculiar character, 

 on various parts of the coast, which should 



* Vide tabular statement annexed. 



