45
12.
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enumerated, seeing that as
are afterwards specially
routes
mentioned, so
far as
I can discover! It is quite true that some of the subsequent Articles regulate the ratio of postage to be paid for the conveyance of letters to Algeria, Malta, Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, and by land as far as the Isthmus of Suez
the other places;
I can see,
conventions
by bay
and
the Convention
had
no special routes
at all save the route between Dover & Calais.
E.
We are not told what was the route which the Ara followed. I gather from the Papers that she went from Marseilles through the Suez Canal, and thence to Shanghae, touching either occasionally or regularly, I know not which, at Hong-Kong. If this be so
on
to
strictly
HO