The time and course of these boats will be more specifically stated under the West Indian head. The cost would be thus:-- Capital. Yearly Charge. Four Steamers L96,000 L24,800 Coals 27,750 ------- Yearly charges L52,550 ------- The mails, also, on this station, might be carried by sailing packets, and which would require to be of the very first class. Their time from Fayal to Fayal again, would be, say nineteen days to Barbadoes; seventeen days to stop in the Colonies; and twenty-four days from Cape Nichola Mole to Fayal (2600 miles), together sixty days; and which brings the return of this sailing vessel to Fayal to correspond with the arrival of the packets from Falmouth, and of the mails from South America, and from North America, at that place. Four packets would be sufficient for this station, giving two mails each month. Their cost would be 38,000_l._, and their yearly expenses at 4,200_l._ each, 16,800_l._--considerably cheaper than steam, but lengthening, as has been seen, the communication between Great Britain and that quarter of the world, _fifteen_ days. A spare packet might be necessary, but the cost of that has been included, and stated under the South American head. VII. (p. 028) _The West Indian Station._