Revenue 410,000 tons yearly, at 10_s._ £205,000 -------- Capital 1,000,000_l._ interest 5 per cent £50,000 Dividend in Stock 10 per cent 100,000 Expenses, management, and repairs 20,000 Surplus fund 35,000 ------- £205,000 --------
Thus affording from the outset a fair and profitable return, and which may reasonably be expected to be doubled in a very few years afterwards.
Hitherto the matter has been considered entirely as relates to the practicability and probable expenditure to be incurred in carrying the Plan into effect, and the remuneration to be obtained from the Plan when completed. It yet remains to show the advantages which will be obtained in the courses and distances by this route, as compared with other routes, and also with the route by the North Pole--even were this latter practicable throughout the year, but which it almost certainly is not. It has elsewhere been shown how a communication across any part of this Isthmus, even by an ordinary road, can be made to extend, and to accelerate the mail communications between Great Britain and all the western coasts of America, and more especially with the most eastern parts of the eastern world, and her own rising empire in New Holland. Nothing calls forth the enterprize and the energies of mankind, equal to the rapidity and regularity of correspondence: and without this, no country can either improve or advance in cultivation or civilization.
The comparative distances by the several lines of communication will stand as follow:--
Geo. Miles. Falmouth, direct to Rialejo 4650 Rialejo to Colombia River 3000 ---- 7650 ---- London to Icy Cape, over the North Pole 3870 (p. 106) Icy Cape to Colombia River, by Oonoolashka 2745 ---- 6615 ---- London to Icy Cape, over the Pole 3870 Icy Cape to Canton 4200 ---- 8070 ---- Falmouth direct to Gulf Papagayo 4650 Papagayo to Canton, by Owhyhee 9350 ---- 14,000 ------ London to Icy Cape, over the Pole 3870 Icy Cape to Sydney, New South Wales 6600 ---- 10,470 ------ Falmouth to Rialejo, by Jamaica 5530 Rialejo direct to Sydney, New South Wales 7400 ---- 12,930 ------ Falmouth to Colombia River, by L. Nicaragua 8345 Ditto ditto Cape Horn 13,100 ------ 4755 diff. ------ Falmouth to Sydney direct, westward 12,400 Ditto to ditto, by Cape of Good Hope 6,205 Cape to Sydney direct 6,470 ----- 12,670 ------ Falmouth to Cape Good Hope 6205 Cape Good Hope to Trincomalee 4720 Trincomalee to Batavia 1750 Batavia to Sydney, by Hobart Town 4085 ---- 16,760 ------ Falmouth to Rialejo, by Fayal, &c. 5530 Rialejo to Canton, by Owhyhee 9300 ---- 14,830 ------ Rialejo to Sydney, New South Wales, by Otaheite 7500 Panama to Sydney 7900 ---- 15,400 ------ Falmouth to Cape of Good Hope 6205 (p. 107) Cape of Good Hope to Trincomalee 4640 Trincomalee to Canton, by Batavia 3580 ---- 14,425 ------ Falmouth to Rialejo 5530 Rialejo to Pekin 8000 ---- 14,130 ------ Falmouth to Cape of Good Hope 6205 Cape of Good Hope to Pekin, by Canton, &c. 9660 ---- 15,865 ------ Falmouth to Port Culebra, by Barbadoes, &c. 5530 Port Culebra to Jeddo, Japan 7250 ---- 12,780 ------ Falmouth to Cape of Good Hope, by Madeira 6205 Cape of Good Hope by Batavia, &c. to Jeddo 8300 ---- 14,505 ------ Falmouth to Rialejo by Barbadoes, &c. 5530 Rialejo to Manilla 8860 ---- 14,390 ------ Falmouth to Cape of Good Hope, by Madeira 6205 Cape of Good Hope to Manilla, by Batavia 6720 ---- 12,925 ------ Falmouth to Rialejo, by Barbadoes, &c. 5530 Rialejo to Kamschatka 6000 ---- 11,530 ------ Falmouth to Cape of Good Hope, by Madeira 6205 Cape of Good Hope to Batavia 5200 Batavia to Kamschatka by Canton 4530 ---- 15,935 ------ London to Icy Cape, over the Pole 3870 Icy Cape to Kamschatka 1280 ---- 5,150 ------