Ocean Steamships

Excerpt from Ocean Steamships: A Popular Account of Their Construction, Development, Management and Appliances Important part taken BY the united states IN establishing ocean routes - rivalry IN sailing vessels with england - effect OF the discovery OF gold IN california - the cape horn route - austra lian packet lines - the problem OF A short route To india - four main routes OF steamship traffic - characteristics OF the regu lar service between europe and the east - port said and the suez canal - scenes AT aden and AT bombay - the run To colombo, ceylon - some OF the by-ways OF travel from singapore - the PA ciric mail - from yokohama To san francisco - two routes from panama TO new york - south american ports - magnificent sce nery OF the magellan straits - beauties OF the port OF rio - the great ocean route from london TO australia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.