id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt uc1.31175014144359 Loftie, W. J. Orient line guide; chapters for travellers by sea and by land edited by W.J. Loftie 1885 .txt text/plain 121407 13268 83 London at reduced rates are issued to Passengers by the Great Western Railway Company, or of sight of land, but the great steamer is perpetually entering new ports daily as the many advantages the sea voyage has over similar expenditure on shore travel come to be known. There are the air and sky, the great playground of that important forceā€”the weather ; a force that can be studied at sea in its natural sea-weed may be seen, more vessels may be passed, and the water may change For example, if the observer's eye on the deck of a steamer be twentyfive feet above the sea, the visible horizon will be over five nautical miles off. THE land to which the Orient Company's steamers are bound, the destination of the great majority of their passengers, is that new home of the British Australian colonies, about three times larger than New South Wales, and more ./cache/uc1.31175014144359.pdf ./txt/uc1.31175014144359.txt