Whbn the railroad across the continent of America is completed, which it soon will be,, there will be constant conveyances by means of railways and mail packets for passengers desiring to travel round the world. This grand tour will be 22,000 miles in length, will cost abou.t £3OO, and will be accomplished in about eighty days. The English tourist will be able to visit America, China, Ceylon, and Egypt. He will cross the Atlantic, North Pacific, and Indian Oceans, the Red and Mediterranean Sets, the continent of America, and the Delta of Egypt. He will be able to leave England, say, in the beginning of May, and to arrive home again about the middle of July. Steam-packets leave England for New York almost daily. Daily trains will start from New York for San Francisco Mail steamers leave San Francisco for Hongkong monthly ; and Hongkong for Southampton fortnightly,
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Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 152, 9 January 1869, Page 4
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