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     LAND AND WATER ROUTES, &c. 
     
    
   
   
    
     HE Prince Edward Island Railway is a narrow gauge 
     
     road 210 miles long, traversing the country from end 
     
     to end, and touching almost every point of any import- 
     
    

    
     ance. Its general offices are at Charlottetown. A branch to the 
     
     Murray Harbor District in the southern part of the Province, 
     
     with a bridge across the Hillsborough River, is to be constructed. 
     
     Good waggon roads are everywhere found. During the season 
     
     of navigation, there is daily communication by the fine steamers 
     
     “ Northumberland ” and “Princess ” of the Charlottetown Steam 
     
     Navigation Company, between Summerside and Point du Chene, 
     
     N. B. and Charlottetown and Pictou, N. S. This company 
     
     was first organized in 1863, and it is worthy of remark that 
     
     during these 36 years not an accident has occured by which a 
     
     passenger or a piece of freight has been injured. 
     
    
   
   
    
     After the close of navigation, open communication is main- 
     
     tained between Georgetown and Pictou by the Steamer “ Stanley,” 
     
     a boat specially designed for the winter work, and which has 
     
     been wonderfully successful. The “Stanley” was built at 
     
     Govan, on the Clyde, in 1888. She is constructed throughout of 
     
     Siemen’s-Martin steel. Her dimensions are:——Length 207 feet, 
     
     breadth 32 feet, depth 20 feet 3 inches. She is a screw boat 
     
     of 914 tons gross, and 300 horse power, and attains a speed 
     
     of nearly 15 knots in clear water. Within the present year it 
     
     is expected that the “Minto” a larger and more powerful 
     
     boat than the “Stanley,” will be ready to act in conjunction 
     
     with her. In mid-winter the work of the steamers is supple- 
     
     mented by the Ice Boat Service between Cape Traverse on the 
     
     'Island and Cape Tormentine on the New Brunswick shore, a 
     
     distance of about nine miles. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The standard ice-boat is 18 feet long, 5 feet wide and 2 
     
     feet 2 inches deep. Its frame is oaken, it is planked with 
     
     cedar, and the planks are covered with tin. It has a double 
     
     keel which serves for runners, and four leather straps are 
     
     attached to each side. The crews are hardy, powerful and 
     
     courageous men. The passage usually occupies three and a 
     
     half hours, but when there is much “ lolly ” (small particles of ice 
     
     floating in the water often to the depth of several feet), and