Travelogues; . AT A STATION announces that something is really going to happen, by andby. And sure enough, after a shrill blast from the whistleof the station-master, a toot from the horn of the switchman,and a squeak from the locomotive, the Trans-Siberian flyerdoes move at last, and before long we are once more outof sight of land, encircled by the wide horizon of limitlessSiberia. There is nothing in sight except distance, bisectedby the straight and seemingly endless line of the track. 262 THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY We seem to be farfrom this Hne ofsteel marks a newroute aro
Travelogues; . AT A STATION announces that something is really going to happen, by andby. And sure enough, after a shrill blast from the whistleof the station-master, a toot from the horn of the switchman,and a squeak from the locomotive, the Trans-Siberian flyerdoes move at last, and before long we are once more outof sight of land, encircled by the wide horizon of limitlessSiberia. There is nothing in sight except distance, bisectedby the straight and seemingly endless line of the track. 262 THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY We seem to be farfrom this Hne ofsteel marks a newroute around theworld ; we neverlose this thought,— a thought thatshrinks this oldworld of ours andmakes of it a ballso small that wealmost arrive at aconception of it inits entirety. De-spite the seeminglevelness of thisvast plain of Si-beria, we are con-scious in some way.
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