Interoceanic Canals; An Essay on the Question of Location for a Ship Canal Across the American Continent - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...vessels built in England in the year 1867, as compared with those of 1865, showed a decrease of 71 ships, with a decrease in the total tonnage of that class of ships of 33,124 tons, while the increase of steamers was 113, with an increased tonnage of 52,152 tons. The impulse given to commerce by the application of steam to navigation and overland transportation, tends daily to a greater extension of its requirements and to render necessary a greater promptness and certainty of delivery than can be secured by sailing vessels. In the remarkable report of the Commissioners of the Government of Holland, upon the results of the opening of the Suez canal, published in 1860, it is said, with good reason, "It is certain that, after the penetration of the isthmus of Suez by this channel, the commerce of the ports of the Mediterranean with the East Indies will be transacted exclusively in steam vessels." If this prediction shall be realized, the ocean ports will follow this movement. When the oriental cargoes shall begin to arrive at Marseilles, by the Suez route, not only by means of steam alone, but by combined sail and steam, from Ceylon in 37 days, from Singapore in 49 days; from Java in 50 days; and when cargoes from Marseilles shall reach Ceylon in 34 days, Singapore in 43, and Java in 45, it will no longer be possible for the ocean merchants to allow their ships to sail slowly over the sea by way of tbe cape, in order to reach the Lizzard from Ceylon and Singapore in 116 days, and from Java in 110. We must, on the other hand, confess that the application of steam to the navigation of the Suez route is greatly facilitated by the ease with which coal can be supplied at the successive stations. Vessels can coal at the Mediterranean ports, and again at S...
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