Valentine's manual of old New York . Ihromtgn of itj£ g>?tiB 1B5Z Perhaps the most celebrated of allthe California clippers and among thelargest, 2,421 tons. She was com-manded by Capt. Lauchlan McKay,brother of Donald McKay the idea of the profits of the Cali-fornia trade may be gauged from thereceipts of her first voyage, $84,000. She returned by way of Honoluluand hung up the remarkable run of1,478 miles in four da_ys or an aver-age of 378 miles per day. Her bestdays run, March 18th, 1853, was 411miles and for 11 days she averaged330 miles steady or 13% knots perhour. Allowi
Valentine's manual of old New York . Ihromtgn of itj£ g>?tiB 1B5Z Perhaps the most celebrated of allthe California clippers and among thelargest, 2,421 tons. She was com-manded by Capt. Lauchlan McKay,brother of Donald McKay the idea of the profits of the Cali-fornia trade may be gauged from thereceipts of her first voyage, $84,000. She returned by way of Honoluluand hung up the remarkable run of1,478 miles in four da_ys or an aver-age of 378 miles per day. Her bestdays run, March 18th, 1853, was 411miles and for 11 days she averaged330 miles steady or 13% knots perhour. Allowing for difference in lati-tude and longitude her run of 411miles was actually 424 miles landmeasure. She was a remarkable shipwhose memory still lingers in NewYork.—Collection of Mr. M. Williams. OF OLD NEW YORK which stood on Battery Place where the CustomHouse now is, and which in later days was known asSteamship Row. Opposite State Street is a view ofthe Bay and old Fort Clinton, now changed into an emi-grant receiving station
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