CHAPTER XIX

.—The Eastern Steam Navigation Co.—Proposal to build

a line of Leviathan steamers—GREAT EASTERN—Contracted for—Attempts to launch—Finally successful—Description of—Enormous loss to shareholders—Sails for New York—Carries troops to Canada—Lays Atlantic Cable—Is ultimately bought by “Lewis” for exhibition purposes, and finally broken up[1] 119

## CHAPTER XX .—Steam to Australia—SOPHIA JANE—GREAT BRITAIN—GOLDEN

AGE—ROYAL CHARTER lost, 1859 129

## CHAPTER XXI .—Steamships in Chinese waters—SCOTLAND (1860)—ROBERT

LOWE[2] (1863)—Alfred Holt Line, 1865 134

ERRATA.—

## CHAPTER XXII .—Remarkable History of the Glasgow Steamer FERRET 137

## CHAPTER XXIII .—Anglo-Canadian Steamship Companies—McKean,

McLarty and Lamont—Allan Bros. & Co.—Canadian Pacific Railway Co.—Dominion Line 147

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