EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES, 
471 
PLATE XCIV. 
VIEW OF THE PACHA’S STEAM VESSEL OF WAR, THE NILE, AT SEA, 
IN THE NILE. 
The construction of this vessel is shewn in Plates CIV. to CVIL, and full parti 
culars respecting her will be found in the description of those plates. 
PLATES XCV. and XCVI. 
THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY’S STEAM VESSEL BERENICE. 
This beautiful vessel, which is of 680 tons, was built in the Clyde by Messrs. 
Wood; and her engines, 230 horse power, were manufactured by Mr. Robert Napier, 
of Glasgow. 
From the log of her voyage from Falmouth to Bombay by the Cape of Good Hope, 
performed between the middle of March and the middle of June 1837, the results 
expressed in the following Table have been derived :—- 
! 
Voyage performed. 
Distance in 
nautical miles. 
Time 
occupied, in 
days and 
hours. 
Rate per hour 
in miles. 
Coal expended. 
cc 
G 
■ n-f 0 
Tallow 
expended. 
C8 ' 
« O m 
0 ü sg 
Mea 
sured. 
By log. 
Meas. 
dist. 
Log. 
dist. 
tons. 
cwts. per 
hour. 
Oil es 
pendei 
in gal] 
¿4 *+•< 
73 O d 
£ s 2 
pos 
Falmouth to Tene-) 
riffe. 3 
1430 
1572 
d. 
7 
h. 
7 
8*2 
8-9 
127 
14*5 
124 
380 
11*2 
Teneriffe to Mayo ) 
B. Vista i 
840 
952 
4 
9 
8-0 
9-0 
84 
16-2 
17 
240 
10*0 
Mayo B. Vista to > 
Fern. Po 3 
2180 
2272 
11 
5 
8*1 
8-4 
155 
11-4 
39 
1770 
14-1 
Fernando Po to} 
Cape Good Hope. ) 
2340 
2594 
14 
5 
6*8 
76 
267 
15-6 
52 
1614 
8*1 
Cape Good Hope to ) 
Mauritius 3 
2290 
2692 
13 
0 
73 
8^6 
246 
16-2 
48 
578 
9.3 
Mauritius to Bom« ) 
bay 3 
2520 
2847 
13 
18 
7-6 
8*6 
197 
119 
55 
— 
14-4 
The boilers are three in number and of copper; they are blown out every two 
hours. There is no gauge on the steam-chest, or for the steam ; and there are nine