Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ich is about 350feet lower in elevation. Space forbids a further description of this climb of2000 feet to Goschenen, where theline plunges into the bowels of theearth, and does not again emergeuntil it has traversed nine and onequarter miles, and has reached thesouthern slope of the Alps. Evenher
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ich is about 350feet lower in elevation. Space forbids a further description of this climb of2000 feet to Goschenen, where theline plunges into the bowels of theearth, and does not again emergeuntil it has traversed nine and onequarter miles, and has reached thesouthern slope of the Alps. Evenhere the portal is 3755 feet abovesea level, and the valley down toBodio is steeper in places than thevalley of the Beuss. Four spiralsare used in descending about 2650feet in an air line distance of lessthan 19 miles. In one place eventhe upper line, where it crosses theloAver line, is in solid rock. Imaginestanding in the gloom of a tunneland considering that vertically be-neath your feet — more than 100feet further down in the bowels of the earth — there is another tunnel belonging to the same line of road. Thegreat majority of tunnels are straight. A few have curves at one or bothends, but nowhere else in the world can be found such examples of spiraltunnels carved out of the living INTERIOR OF ST. CLAIR TUNNELOF DETROIT, MICH. 3G0 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX1 CENTURY St. Clair Tuxnel. — A glance at a map of lower Canada and Michiganwill show that all the rail traffic of lower Canada, and even that from Montrealand Quebec, that passes as far west as Chicago, must either cross the DetroitRiver at Detroit or the St. Clair River, at or near Port Huron. Plans forbridging the river have been frequently made, but the Canadian governmenthas steadily refused permission. The traffic along the river in 1896 amountedto over 35,000,000 tons, or more than was shipped at the ports of either NewYork, London, or Liverpool, and greatly in excess of that which passedthrough the
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