[368] Their dimensions are as follows: 309 feet in length, 38½ feet beam, and 28½ depth of hold to upper or spar deck.
[369] Freight for ordinary packages of measurement goods:
To Suez, Penang, and Singapore, 50s. per ton, with 5 per cent. primage.
To Hong Kong and Shanghai, 50s. per ton, with 5 per cent. primage.
Through bills of lading are signed for—
Yokohama, Foo-choo-Foo, and Amoy, @ 90s.
Manilla, 90s., Batavia, 80s., Samarang, 84s., Sourabaya, 85s., Padang and Macassar, 92s., Chinkiang, 77s. 6d., Kiukiang, 80s., Hankow, 85s., Nagasaki, 75s., and Hiogo, 80s. per ton.
All without primage. No bill of lading signed for less than 2l. 2s.
Freight payable on delivery of bills of lading.
[370] The Agamemnon left Hankow, 604 miles above Shanghai, on May 25th, 1873, and arrived (by way of the Suez Canal and Gibraltar) at London, July 12th. The mails, which left Shanghai June 1st, arrived in London viâ Brindisi, July 21st, and the passage of the Agamemnon is not an exceptional one.