THE FIRTH OF FORTH.
The barque Firth of Forth, which anchored in this harbor yesterday afternoon, was berthed at the Queen's Wharf this morning, and commences discharging to-morrow. She left London on 27th March, and tbe Povms on tbe 29th, and nfter clearing the Channel with a strong E.S.E. gale, had light irinda to the Equator, which was crossed on 30th April. The S.E. trades were carried from the Hue to lat. 18deg. 8., thence had strong variable winds until the westerlies were caught. The Cape of Good Hope was passed on 25th May, and the Crozet Islands on Ist June, when her foretopsail yard was carried away in a heavy gale. The easting was run down between the 48th and 49th parallels, and the Snares were sighted on the 26th ult., Wellington being reached yesterday as above mentioned. The passage thus occupied 98 days from port to port, and 89 days from land to land. The barque comes in excellent trim,and brirgs 25 passengers in th;' second-class and storage (whose names we published yesterday), but none in the saloon. No vessels were spoken during the voyage.
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Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 159, 5 July 1878, Page 2
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187THE FIRTH OF FORTH. Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 159, 5 July 1878, Page 2
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