APPENDIX. 371 
TABLE OF DISTANCES AND HOUKS STEAMING FROM PANAMA TO THE FOLLOWING PORTS, TIZ : 
Miles. Hours. 
From Panama to the Gulf of Nicoya, 435 48 
« the Gulf of Papagayo, 590 65.30 
« Realejo, 680 75.30 
" ' Sonsonate, 847 94 
" " Yztapa, 937 104 
" « Socunusco, 1095 121.30 
« « Tehuantepec, 1210 134.30 
« " Acapulco 1495 166 
" « Navidad, 1810 201 
" « San Bias, - 1962. 218 
« « Mazatlan, 2091 232 
". « Guaymas, 2448 272 
" " Rio Gila, where it joins the Colorado, - - 2793 310 
„ « q n- 5 ^^^ Mazatlan .... 3016 335 
oan uiego, ^ ^j^.^^^ ^^.^^ Panama, - . 2760 306.30 
" Monterev 5 via Mazatlan . - . , 3376 375 
Monteiey, | ^.^^^^^ ..... 3120 346.30 
„ ., a 17 • S via Mazatlan ... 3456 384 
San Francisco, j^.^.^^^^ .... 3200 355.30 
„ „ -D • a *.T » * T> » T> J S via Mazatlan 3514 390.30 
" " Russian Settlement at rortisodega, < ,. qo^^s qfio 
" " the British Settlement at J via Mazatlan . 4034 448 
Columbia River, } direct, - . - 3570 385.30 
" « Behring's Straits, via Columbia River, - - 5970 663 
« « Woahoo, Sandwich Islands, ... - 4620 513 
" " St. Peter and St. Paul, Kamschatka, via Woahoo, 7380 820 
" " Jedo, in Japan, via Woahoo, .... 7950 883 
« " Canton, via Woahoo, 9540 1060 
In the above table, the distance to Behring's Straits and the ports that follow, 
is given to satisfy the reader's curiosity, and not with a view to any practical 
utility, in the way of Steam Navigation, unless greatly improved and cheapened. 
It is not impossible that chemists may discover some new power, equal to steam, 
and producible at less expense, or that our engineers may invent some mechanical 
mode of propulsion for vessels, rendering the Isthmus of Panama the most direct 
and expeditious route, not only to these ports, but to Manila and the whole 
Eastern Archipelago. 
It will be seen from this table, that the British settlement* on the Columbia 
river might be reached from Panama, by steam, in nineteen days, or say about 
forty days from England. By the same route, the important ^ort of San Francisco 
might be reached in sixteen days from Panama, or thirty-six from England ; and 
the Russsian settlement at La Bodega, in about six hours longer time. What a 
change in our communications, when the nearest Russian settlement on the west 
coast of America, will be brought within thirty-six days and six hours steaming, 
from our own shores ; when even St. Peter and St. Paul, in Kamschatka, will be 
within fifty days, steaming ; Jedo, within fifty-seven ; Canton, within sixty-four, 
and Woahoo, in the Sandwich Islands, within forty-two days ! Such are the 
wonderful results, that sooner or later may he expected from the mere power of 
steam, (improved and cheapened, as it may be, by fresh discoveries,) and the re- 
sumption of the old line of communication between Europe and the Pacific, vi4 
Chagres and Panama. 
• I call it British, believing we have not yet relinquished its Mirthem bank. 
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