PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Trout River, Charlottetown 
     
    
   
   
    
     From tip to tip of Prince Edward Island is about 130 miles, while the 
     
     width varies from two to more than thirty miles. In the two thousand and 
     
     odd square miles of country embraced in these varying widths the island has 
     
     more good land, in proportion to its size, than any part of the Maritime 
     
     Privinces. It grows amazingly large potatoes and surprisingly heavy oats, 
     
     while the farmers raise hundreds of the best horses and thousands of the 
     
     fattest of sheep, every year of their lives. The eggs shipped away each 
     
     season are counted by the million. The people raise enough food to supply 
     
     all their own wants and have as much more to sell to outsiders. Its coast 
     
     fisheries are of very great value. It is altogether a flourishing country, and 
     
     withal, fair to look upon, and as pleasant and inexpensive a place in which 
     
     to live as one can find in a year ’s journey. 
     
    

    
     The island is reached in summer either from Point du Chene, N.B., or 
     
     Pictou, N .S., on the fast and finely equipped steamers of the Charlottetown 
     
     Steam Navigation Company. Going by the first named route the landing 
     
     is made at Summerside, and Charlottetown is reached by a journey of forty— 
     
     nine miles on the Prince Edward Island Railway, a railway owned and oper- 
     
     ated by the Dominion Government in connection with the Intercolonial. 
     
     Leaving Pictou the trip is direct to Charlottetown. Theft Is a daily service 
     
     on each route. In the winter the government steamers “Earl Grey" and 
     
     “Minto” run between Pictou, Charlottetown and Georgetown. 
     
    

    
     The run across the Strait of Northumberland on a fine day in summer 
     
     is a most enjoyable trip. There are times when the water is as calm as that