without hurry.  Those who are to continue their journey then go on board their right car and are again started on time.  The departure slide is like a lower storey of the arrival one.  It is immediately beneath it, but its grade is not quite parallel.  Near the centre, where the cars start, the upper slide is twenty-five feet above the lower one, but at the edge, a mile distant, in consequence of the difference in grade, there is fifty feet between them.  The path of the cars before they emerge from the departure slide, is between the supports of the upper one, yet the supports are so placed that the cars can be pointed before starting for all the principal routes.  There is a through car to Constantinople, and in it the twenty passengers from Halifax take their seats.  At 8.30 the first spring is made, and Paris is reached in 10 minutes.  Another spring, and in 10 minutes more Strasbourg appears.  Then successively:  Munich in 8 minutes, Vienna in 10, Belgrade in 15, and lastly Constantinople in 20, or at 9.43, that is just one hour and thirteen minutes from leaving London, and two hours and 43 minutes from Halifax.  It is still early in the day—­well that is where a surprise awaits the traveller who has not considered that he has been journeying eastward through more than ninety degrees of longitude, so that instead of being a quarter to ten in the morning, it is a good six hours later, or just about four in the afternoon.  Two out of the twenty Haligonians are on business only, and intend to return the same night; the other eighteen, after seeing the lions of Constantinople intend visiting Jerusalem, the Persian Gulf, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Pekin, and Yokohama, staying a day or two in each city.  The car services on this route have been in existence a good many years and are well organized.  From Yokohama a long flight over the Pacific will be taken and Canadian soil again struck at Victoria.  We will not follow the eighteen travellers in their eight or ten days sight-seeing, but will return to the two Haligonians at Constantinople, who have got through their business in a few hours, and must go back to Halifax at once.  They start for London at 10 p.m., Constantinople time, arriving there in one hour and thirteen minutes over the route they traversed in the morning.  They change cars, and in ten minutes are off again via Holyhead, Dublin, Galway, St. John’s and Sydney, C. B., for Halifax, where they arrive in one hour and 20 minutes from London, or forty-three minutes after midnight by Constantinople time, but more than six hours earlier, or about 6.30 in the evening by Halifax time.  They have therefore got ahead of the sun in his apparent journey round the world, for he had set for at least two hours when they started from Constantinople, but they caught up with him when over the Atlantic, and to the engineer it appeared as if he were rising in the west.  This is a daily experience of travellers going west, which never fails at first to create great surprise.