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Excerpt from Round Cape Hornvoyage: Passenger-Ship James W. Paige, From Maine to California in the Year 1852 A voyage round Cape Horn in a passenger ship is an event of. The past. The necessity for performing this perilous voyage has been obvi ated by the introduction of railroads and steam ships. Emigrants and travelers are no longer obliged to risk their lives and waste their time in passing round the Stormy Cape in order to arrive at a point, which may be reached in a week by a pleasant ride across the continent on the railroad; and Cape Horn is destined to be come a terra incognita to all but the readers of ancient voyages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.