. Modern transporation and Atlantic express tracks . ean and everycontinent for European destination land their mails at same system prevails with the far East. The P. and 0. boatsland their mails for Bombay, Calcutta and the Pacific at Colombo. But in Canada the first port of call for the landing of mailsis Kimouski—hundreds of miles inland, through a waterway sub-ject to more obstacles and hazards than are found on any otherocean mail route. A glance at the North Atlantic Chart will show that aCanadian expedient route for a Fast Line between Quebec and Mil-ford or Liverpool, can
. Modern transporation and Atlantic express tracks . ean and everycontinent for European destination land their mails at same system prevails with the far East. The P. and 0. boatsland their mails for Bombay, Calcutta and the Pacific at Colombo. But in Canada the first port of call for the landing of mailsis Kimouski—hundreds of miles inland, through a waterway sub-ject to more obstacles and hazards than are found on any otherocean mail route. A glance at the North Atlantic Chart will show that aCanadian expedient route for a Fast Line between Quebec and Mil-ford or Liverpool, can be adopted by using North Sydney or Louis-burg as ports of call. This will avoid the delays to mails causedby the ice, etc., by Belle Isle, and the dangers of fast steaming infogs on the St. Lawrence. The distance from North Sydney to Milford Haven is 2,183knots; to Queenstown, 2,067 knots. From Moville to Rimouski,2,480 knots by Cape Race, but from Queenstown to New Yorkit is 2,815 knots. The proposed Canadian route would meet the universal de-. — 3 3 03 .a 03 « 02 cr oo * 3- m 92 CO •§ ca 0> O ► a o Ojo 3 .a a o CO ^-* CQ g K o ^ 03 £ I g £ ® to to &P^> *C 08. o> p o +_, CO pbd 03 2 « S3 o to ^ «C 03 J3 < 23 mand, not only as an expedient route, affording the highest pos-sible ocean speed, and quickest delivery of mails; but also theshortest sea passage. In regard to speed and safety it possesses allthe advantages of the New York route. The same lane routes onwhich the fast and regular passages between New York and Liver-pool are made could be used by Canadian lines to the meridian ofCape Race.
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