212 MR. NOBBS'S EETURN HOMEWARD. 
steamer to Navy Bay. The Directors of the 
Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company had 
kindly provided him with a free passage to that 
place. 
At the head of Navy Bay lies the town, which 
by the government of the province, and in all 
official documents, is styled "Colon," but by 
the Americans, who are its founders and chief 
owners, is known by the name of " Aspinwall." 
There is the terminus of the railroad, by which 
the traveller is conveyed about 25 miles, at 
a high rate, to the station at Barbacoas, on the 
river Chagres. Thence there is a conveyance up 
the river by canoes about 14 miles, to the town 
of Cruces. From Cruces the journey overland 
to Panama, about 25 miles, is completed on 
mules, over one of the very worst roads that 
exist in the known world. From the island of 
Taboga, near Panama, an excellent steamer plies 
continually to Valparaiso, touching at Callao, 
the Port of Lima. 
It will be interesting to many readers to learn 
that the late admirable Bishop of Sydney, Dr. 
W. G. Broughton, travelled by this line, cross- 
ing, under circumstances of great difficulty, the 
Isthmus of Panama, on his way from Lima to 
England, which was to be his last place of 
sojourn on earth. He reached our shores on the 
18th of November, 1852, the day of the funeral 
of his patron, the Duke of Wellington, who had 
duly appreciated his merits and virtues. The 
Bishop died in London, greatly lamented, on 
the 20th February, 1853. He had expressed, in 
