Our Kiating Correspondent Tells of Trips in Canada and U. S.
Your Kiating correspondent has been enjoying a holiday in America, and one of the delights has been the opportunity to motor across the country. He "thought that this might form the basis of an article, for there may be some in China who are contemplating home leave or perhaps part of in this country to form the topic for this article.
In all of the "Heralds" which have come to hand, there has been Tittle reference to the great provement in the way of motor roads in West China. A new motor road has been opened between Chengtu and Kiating, a distance of about 115 miles. Other trunk lines have been started out of Chengta, east and north-east and soon the great city of Chungking will be linked up wirth the capital city. The big salt rond between Tzeliutsing and Pushun is now improved for motors and soon will extend southward to the city of Luchow. All this goes to show that in a comparatively short time one will be able to motor all over West China. Motor dealers with an eye for business, will do well to keep in touch with the excellent opportunities which are afforded in West China, Across Canada One may start at Halifax and go over an all-Canada motor road right to Victoria B.C., and that over reads that are in good condition. Of course there are more than one road across the continent in the United States, and the trip from New York or Washington can be made westward, thibugh Chicago. either to Seattle or San Francisco, and over good highways all the' distance. Speed trips and trial trips are being rade over these all the time. The Lincoln Highway system is the great artery across the United States.
All roads lead to Niagara Fall the district of the American land seas" and the smaller lakes of northern New York State are also very beautiful. The "Finger lakes" ast of Buffalo and around Syracuse fare a rare sight for the tourist and there are splendid motor roads throughout this district. In, fact, Southern. Ontario, New" York, Maine, New Hampshire, and the New England States abound with splendid highways, all roads from the West, centre on Chicago and from there, eastward, radiates a Atlantis ocean. splendid highways, one skirting the north shore of Lake Erie, to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, the other running: from Detroit t) London, ence t> Niagara Falls. the third, running from Chicago, north of Detroit. through Port Huron north of Tondcn, direct t" Toronto, and. thence onto Montreal and Quebec.
The Trans Canada Highway has a very picturesque section through the Rockies, and on to Winnepeg. The road then runs to Ft. William where an excellent boat trip through the Lake Superior. and Sault St. Marie districts, and down through Sydbury, Algonquin Park, down the Ottawa river to Ottawa, thence on to Quebec. Here the' river St. Lawrence is crossed, either at Levis or over the new St, Lawrence bridge, and along the highway south of, but bordering on the St. Lawrence, to Riviere Clu Loup and on to Ste. Flavie. At cither of these places the highway turns South, the one from Riviere clu Loup running through the forests of Quebec, and New Brunswick to Frederictown and St. John, the one from Ste. Flavie, running south to Chatham' Moneton and Ambers into Novia Scotia.
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