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a written lecture might have enabled me to avoid. Finally, I beg to 
thank you for the patience with which you have favoured me. 
(Loud applause). 
THE CHAIRMAN : Well, gentlemen, as nobody has anything to 
say I will offer our very hearty thanks to Captain Cleeve for 
what we have all found to be an extremely interesting lecture, and I 
think I may say (unless my impressions were different from those of 
the rest of you) a very much more interesting lecture than we expected 
when we came into the room. It has been a most agreeable surprise, 
and we have had many valuable suggestions from the lecture. I 
therefore beg to thank him very heartily in your name (loud applause). 
SUMMARY OF DISTANCES. 
Standard — Land's End to Shetland Is lands , distance 750 miles. 
Europe. 
Geographical Features. 
Length of Black sea (maximum). 
,, Caucasus. 
„ Caspian sea (maximum). 1 
Length of Mediterranean— 
East coast of Mediterranean to Cape 
Matapan. 
Cape Matapan (Greece) to Cape 
Spartivento. 
Cape Spartivento (Sardinia) to Gib¬ 
raltar. 
Adriatic to Bay of Biscay (Trieste to 
Cape Einisterre to Straits of Dover. 
Shetland islands to North cape (Ice¬ 
land). 
North to south length of Baltic (Tornea 
to Mem el). 
*Black sea to Baltic (Memel). 
^Baltic to Adriatic (Memel to Trieste). 
^Trieste to Cape Matapan. 
*Cape Matapan to mouth of Danube. 
*Mouth of Danube to Trieste. 
Bayonne). 
* N.B.—These form a diamond of two equilateral triangles. 
Countries. 
Length of Spain and Portugal (Cape 
St. Vincent to Cape Creux). 
Length of Switzerland and France. 
„ Italy and Sicily. 
,, Austria (east and west). 
,, Germany (Memel to Treves). 
Length of Turkey (Bosphorus to North- 
West Bosnia) and South-West to 
North Roumania. 
Length of British Isles (Land’s End to 
Shetlands). 
Distances between Capital Towns. 
London to Christiania. 
„ Madrid (approximate). 
,, Florence. 
,, Venice. 
Vienna, Vienna to Constan- 
hence London to Constan- 
1500 miles. 
Vienna to Stockholm. 
Rome to Berlin. 
,, Brussels. 
Copenhagen to Dublin. 
tinople: 
tinople, 
Copenhagen to St. Petersburg. 
Moscow to Stockholm. 
,, Odessa, Moscow to mouth of 
river Mezen (North sea); north and 
south length of Russia = 1500 miles. 
Moscow to Orenburg, Moscow to War¬ 
saw— east and west breadth of Russia 
in Europe = 1500 miles. 
Moscow to Warsaw, Warsaw to Rheims 
—Napoleon’s expedition, 1812. 
