Upon the question of relative distances, engineering, and generally what I saw between Port Moody and Chicago, I again take advantage of Mr. Edward Wragge's excellent notes. "_Table of Distances between Liverpool and China and Japan_, via _the Canadian Pacific Railway, through Canadian territory, and_ via _New York and San Francisco, through United States territory_:-- "ROUTE THROUGH CANADIAN TERRITORY. "_Summer Route_ MILES. Liverpool to Quebec, _via_ Belle Isle 2,661 Quebec to Montreal 172 Montreal to Port Moody 2,892 Port Moody to Vancouver 12 Vancouver to Victoria 78 Vancouver to Yokohama 4,334 Vancouver to Hongkong 5,936 "_Winter Route_ MILES. Liverpool to Halifax 2,530 Halifax to Quebec 678 Other points as in summer. Summer route, Liverpool to Yokohama 10,071 Winter route, " " 10,618 "ROUTE THROUGH UNITED STATES TERRITORY. Liverpool to New York 3,046 New York to Chicago, _via_ N.Y.C. and M.C. Railways 961 Chicago to San Francisco 2,357 San Francisco to Yokohama 4,526 San Francisco to Hongkong 6,128 Liverpool to Yokohama 10,890 "For distance to Hongkong, add 1,602 miles to the distance to Yokohama. "_Note_,--Distances by rail are statute miles. Distances by sea, geographical miles. "ESQUIMALT AND NANAIMO RAILWAY AND COAL MINES AT WEST WELLINGTON AND NANAIMO. "The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway runs from West Victoria, near Esquimalt, to Nanaimo, which latter place is a small mining town in the Island of Vancouver, lying on the east coast, on the shore of the Straits of Georgia, nearly opposite Burrard Inlet, from which it is distant about 28 miles.