_Parisian_ are: length over all, 440 feet; breadth, 46 feet; moulded depth, 36 feet; with a gross tonnage of 5,365 tons. Her machinery is capable of developing 6,000 indicated horse-power. Although she has neither twin screws nor triple expansion engines, she has done her work remarkably well, maintaining an average speed of about fourteen knots. Her fastest voyage from Moville to Rimouski was made in 1896, viz., 6 days, 13 hours, 10 minutes, corrected time. Her best day’s run on that voyage was 359 knots. Her career has been a remarkable one: in these seventeen years she has not met with an accident, and is consequently a very popular ship. She is fitted for 160 saloon passengers in the most complete and comfortable manner, and there seems to be always room for one more. On a recent occasion the _Parisian_ brought over 255 cabin passengers. She can easily accommodate 120 second-class and 1,000 steerage passengers. She carries a large cargo and is a very fine sea boat. The fleet of the Allan Line consists at present of thirty-four steamers, aggregating 134,937 tons. In addition to the weekly line between Liverpool and Montreal, regular weekly services are maintained from Montreal, and also from New York, to Glasgow; the London, Quebec and Montreal service is fortnightly in summer; there is also a direct service between Glasgow and Boston fortnightly, and regular communication between Liverpool, Glasgow and Philadelphia, as well as with River Plate and other ports. Some of the freight and cattle-ships of the Allan Line are large and fine vessels, such as the _Buenos Ayrean_, 4,005 tons, built at Dumbarton in 1879—one of the first ships ever constructed of steel. The _Carthaginian_ and _Siberian_ are both 4,000-ton ships, specially adapted for the cattle trade. The _Mongolian_ and _Numidian_, of 4,750 tons each, are model ships in the class to which they belong. A few years ago the Allans acquired the State Line, plying between Glasgow and New York. Two of these, the _State of California_ (5,500 tons) and the _State of Nebraska_ (4,000 tons), are excellent ships with good accommodation for large numbers of passengers. The two oldest ships of the line in commission are the _Waldensian_ (formerly _St. Andrew_), built in 1861, and the _Phœnician_ (formerly the _St. David_), built in 1864, both of which are still doing service in the South American trade.