Immigration and the Hudson's Bay Route. 559 



The immigrant coming: to the North-West via Hudson's Bay 

 and enjoying the pleasures of the trip 4hat I have only partly 

 described, will upon his arrival not only write back to his friends, 

 describing the advantages of the new country for settlement ; but he 

 will be able to tell them that the voyage out is one full of pleasure 

 and interest. 



As the question of distances is deeply involved in the foregoing 

 contrast of voyages, and as it is quite possible the reader may not 

 be fully persuaded that there is the difference claimed, I think it 

 proper to submit the following table of lengths, in common land or 

 statute miles of five thousand two hundred and eighty feet each, of 

 a degree of longitude in the different latitudes north of the equator : — 



• LENGTHS OF DEGREES OP LONGITUDE IN DIFFERENT LATITUDES. 



The importance of the above table may be illustrated in this 

 way : Take the latitude of New York City, in the neighbourhood of 



