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position of Canada upon it, this country enjoys great advantages 

 over the United States in respect of transpacific, transcontinental, 

 and transatlantic trade, and it is not likely that the great central 

 States through which that commerce now flows would consent to 

 see it transferred to higher latitudes without strong opposition. We 

 would be at the mercy of a more numerous population to the south 

 of us, interested in holding trade and commerce to the lower 

 parallels, and, being outnumbered, would have to submit to living 

 beneath our privileges. 



I have already pointed out the advantages which the Dominion 

 will shortly enjoy in this respect over the United States, and will 

 again refer to them here. If we take, as is usually done, a central * 

 point in Japan, say Yokohama, in latitude 30° 30' north, we will 

 have a location more than sufficiently far south to test the whole 

 question of distances. It is in a lower latitude than San Francisco, 

 and yet the distance from it to that point is four thousand four 

 hundred and seventy nautical miles, as against four thousand three 

 hundred and seventy-four to Port Moody, or three thousand eight 

 hundred and sixty-five to Port Simpson. There is a Table of 

 Distances given on page 19 of the present work showing the differ- 

 ence in three routes between Yokohama and Liverpool. The first is 

 by way of San Francisco and New York : the second by way of 

 Port Moody and Montreal ; the third by way of Port Simpson and 

 the proposed Hudson's Bay route. It is as follows : — 



LINE NUMBER ONE. 



Yokohama to San Francisco (nautical miles) 4,470 



San Francisco to New York (statute miles) 3,390 



New York to Liverpool (nautical miles) ^. 3,040 



Total navigation and railway distance 10,900 



LINE NUMBER TWO. 



Yokohama to Port Moody (nautical miles) 4,374 



Port Moody to Montreal, C.P.R. (statute miles) 2,885 



Montreal to Liverpool (nautical miles) 3,000 



Total navigation and railway distance 10,259 



