CHAPTER XIV.

Italy—The Eastern Mails—Sicily 427

APPENDICES.

APPENDIX, No. 1.

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Report by Mr. Edward Page, Inspector-General of Mails, on some points connected with the relations between the Post Office Department and Railway Companies 439

APPENDIX, No. 2.

Reply of Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P., President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, to Observations in the Second Report of the Postmaster-General. Delivered at the Meeting of May 20th, 1856 454

APPENDIX, No. 3.

Copy of Letter Addressed to a Member of the Italian Parliament upon the Importance of the Eastern Mails, now despatched _viâ_ Marseilles and _viâ_ Southampton, being transmitted _viâ_ Brindisi 482

INDEX 501

MAPS AND DIAGRAMS.

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ROUTES FROM LONDON TO BRINDISI BY THE MONT CENIS AND THE BRENNER 14

PLAN OF THE HARBOUR AND TOWN OF BRINDISI 15

MAP OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD 17

MAP OF INDIA AND OF INDIAN RAILWAYS 245

GRADIENTS OF HOLBORN HILL AND SNOW HILL, LONDON 322

A CENTRE-RAIL ENGINE AND TRAIN ASCENDING A STEEP GRADIENT AND GOING ROUND A SHARP CURVE 334

PATENT CENTRE-RAIL ENGINE—FRONT ELEVATION 337

MAP OF THE UNDERGROUND METROPOLITAN RAILWAY, LONDON 387

SECTION OF THE METROPOLITAN LINE 388

SECTION OF MR. REMMINGTON’S PROPOSED TUNNEL BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND 399

THE GREAT TUNNEL OF THE ALPS 401

SECTION OF THE MONT CENIS RAILWAY 401

RAMBLES ON RAILWAYS.