the Colonies be required, I venture to hope
Your Lordship may
the necessary steps
one on
the other.
be enabled to take
to
secure either the
I have &c. (Signed) R. Alcock.
202
The Coast of China, notwithstanding its
fogs
in
Spring, its typhoons in autumn, and
blows in winter, is
it's heavy northerly blows
comparatively free from the shoals, sunken
rocks and
dangerous
headlands, which in
other parts of the world contribute
200
---
much
to swell the account of losses by shipwreck.
A properly prepared resume of the Marine mishaps of the last five and twenty years
would go far to show that, typhoons
excepted, the Causes must be looked for not so much in the dangers of the navigation,
as in the
resulting
carelessness of those on watch in collision, fire, or stranding,
and in the reckless competition which has
sent
goodly vessels to the bottom with all sail set. Much, therefore, as the appropriation