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veral South American governments may be ob- 

 tained. 



This proposal appearing to the committee to 

 be extremely fair and moderate^ they recom- 

 mend its consideration and adoption to his 

 Majesty^s government. 



Considering^ therefore^ that Mr. Wheel- 

 wright's project offered the only fair prospect 

 of securing the object of the committee^s in- 

 quiry, namely, the possibility of establishing a 

 periodical intercourse between the several ports 

 of the Pacific and Panama, with a view more 

 particularly to the conveyance of letters, by 

 that route, M and from Europe, it was deemed 

 proper carefully to examine the practicability 

 and expediency of the means, by which Mr. 

 Wheelwright proposed to effect that object; 

 and the following is the result of their delibera- 

 tions, on the principal points connected there- 

 with, formed after entering into the fullest 

 examination of the data on which Mr. Wheel- 

 wright has founded his calculations. 



1. That three steam vessels, the number with 

 which Mr. Wheelwright proposes to commence 

 the undertaking, having duplicates of all parts 

 of their engines and gear subject to become 

 deteriorated, would be sufficient, at the outset, 

 for its ordinary exigencies ; but, considering the 



