ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES OF PACKETS CALCULATED. (p. 119)

The arrivals at, departures from, and the returns to Fayal, of the

packets for all quarters, will correspond so well with the arrival

outwards of the steamers from Falmouth, that no material delay on the

part of the steamers bearing all the return mails to Falmouth will be

occasioned or required. But because February has only twenty-eight

days, the mails, to make all coincide more nearly, should be made up

in London, instead of the 1st and 15th of February, on the 30th of

January, and 13th of the former month. The following, however, taking

the despatch of the mails from London according to the days in each

month, will show the periods of the whole:--

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