when wind and tide are unfavorable, it sometimes requires from five to seven hours. A trip by “ the Capes” is a unique experience.

Freight and passenger steamers connect weekly with Quebec, Montreal, St. John’s, Newfoundland. Halifax, Boston and the Magdalen Islands. Small steamers and sailing packets, most of them more or less subsidized, furnish means of coast and river transit. A direct steamship service to Great Britain was inaugurated in the fall of 1898.

Telegraphic communication is maintained by the cable of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, 12 miles long, between Capes Traverse and 'l‘ormentine, and 27 other offices of this company are established throughout the Province and along the Railway. The land line is 130 miles long. This system also includes I mile of cable under the Hillsborough River at Charlottetown.

A telephone system of about 500 miles, reaching almost every important point is also in existence, Mails are despatched daily to the mainland and weekly to Great Britain, while advantage is taken of intervening opportunities to Europe via New York. There are good postal facilities throughout the Province, offices being established at intervals of three or four miles.

The following table gives the distances between Charlotte- town and some of the principal cities of Canada and the United States, and the time required to make the journey during the summer season :—

Miles Hours

Charlottetown to Halifax, N. S. 160 12

n Moncton, N. B. 110 6 20 min.

H St. John, N. B. 200 9 20 min.

u Quebec, (1. C. R.) 600 23

n Montreal, (I. C. R.) 772 28

n Montreal, (C. P. R.) 681 25

n Ottawa. (C. A.) 887 31

.4 Ottawa, (C. P. R) 796 28

.- 'l‘oronto, (G. T. R.) 1,105 37

r Toronto, (C. P. R.) 1,019 35

u Boston, 654 24