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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040b9c00dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.multimap.com/world/places.cgi" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multimap.com/world/places.cgi"><U><B>Map Locations</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>courtesy of multimap.com</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi?place=&db=w3&scale=1000000&width=500&height=300&lon=-5.5&lat=36&zs=" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi"><U><B>Gibraltar</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi?place=&db=w3&scale=1000000&width=500&height=300&lon=-5.5&lat=36&zs=" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi"><U><B>Valetta (Malta)</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Corfu</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Patras</B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Falmouth Packet Archives 1688-1850</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Falmouth Packet Archives 16881850"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Spain Corunna, Gijon, Vigo, Cadiz"><U>Spain - Corunna, Gijon, Vigo, Cadiz</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Packet Routes"><U>Packet Routes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Portugal, Lisbon, Faro Oporto"><U>Portugal, Lisbon, Faro & Oporto</U></A>   |   <B>Mediterranean - Gibraltar, Malta +</B>   |   <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Portugal: Madeira the Azores "><U>Portugal: Madeira & the Azores </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Barbados, Jamaica Bahamas"><U>Barbados, Jamaica & Bahamas</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Leeward Islands"><U>Leeward Islands</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id150.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trinidad Tobago"><U>Trinidad & Tobago</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pensacola Charlestown"><U>Pensacola & Charlestown</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id69.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Surinam"><U>Surinam</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id83.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guyana"><U>Guyana</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mexico"><U>Mexico</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id140.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Florida, Carolinas, Virginia"><U>Florida, Carolinas, Virginia</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="New York"><U>New York</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="N. 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[part of <I>'Shipping Gazette'</I> article in FP]</div> <bR> <div> FP 12/8/<B>1837:</B> The Secretary to the Post-Office, w.e.f. September 1837, will send the mails by hired steamer every Monday from <B>Falmouth - Gibraltar,</B> from thence fortnightly to <B>Malta, Greece, Ionian Islands, Egypt </B>and<B> East India</B> on H.M.Steam packets employed in the Mediterranean.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>