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Trip Around the World

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 14, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 22.

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Trip Around the World.

It used to take three years, at least, for a traveler to complete the circuit of the earth. Modern improvements and appliances enable him to accomplish that feat now in eighty-one days. From a recent Railway Guide we take the following interesting statement of the distances between important points, the means of conveyance, and the time of transit, in a trip around the world:
From Atlantic Cities to Omaha (Nebraska), via the Great Trunk Lines of Railway—about 1,400 miles, in 50 hours.
From Omaha to San Francisco (California), via Union and Central Pacific Railroads—1,914 miles, in 4 days and 6 hours.
From San Francisco to Yokohama (Japan), by Pacific Mail Line Steamers—4,700 miles in 22 days.
From Yokohama to Hong Kong (China), by Pacific Mail or Peninsular and Oriental Steamers—1,600 miles, in 6 days.
From Hong Kong to Calcutta (India), by Peninsular and Oriental Steamers—3,500 miles, in 14 days.
From Calcutta to Bombay (India), by the East Indian and Great Indian Peninsular Railways—1,400 miles, in 2 days.
From Bombay to Suez (Egypt), by Peninsular and Oriental Steamers—3,600 miles, in 14 days.
From Suez to Alexandria (Egypt), by Rail along the Suez Canal—225 miles, in 12 hours.
From Alexandria to Brindisi (Italy), by Peninsular and Oriental Steamers—850 miles, in 2 days.
From Brindisi to London (England), by Rail, via Paris or the Rhine—1,200 miles, in 2 days.
From London to Liverpool (England), by Railway—200 miles, in 5 hours.
From Liverpool to the Atlantic Cities (America), by either of the great Atlantic S. S. Lines—3,000 miles, in 10 days.
Total distance, 23,589 miles. Time, 81 days.