. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . building, about 2170 B. C, untillie was able to effect an entrance in theyear 820 A. D. The door of the pyramid,placed about 24 ft. to the left of thecenter line, had been concealed verycarefully by the builders and each ofthe pyramids enormous sloping side-had been covered with casing stones ofsmooth, polished, dense white limestone,which shone in the sunlight like thiterrible crystal spoken of in EzekielNo doorway being visible, the Caliphbelieving the pyramid to contain untolntreasure, for
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . building, about 2170 B. C, untillie was able to effect an entrance in theyear 820 A. D. The door of the pyramid,placed about 24 ft. to the left of thecenter line, had been concealed verycarefully by the builders and each ofthe pyramids enormous sloping side-had been covered with casing stones ofsmooth, polished, dense white limestone,which shone in the sunlight like thiterrible crystal spoken of in EzekielNo doorway being visible, the Caliphbelieving the pyramid to contain untolntreasure, forced an entrance with thtaid of hapimers, fire and vinegar. Ntreasure was ever found and it has beenleft for modern science to reveal the poses. An example of a Roman tunnelbuilt as part of a highway, was that con-structed by the Emperor Vespasian,which carried the Flaminian way throughthe range of the .Apennines. The tun- men were called leggers on accountof the way they employed their lowerlimbs to furnish the necessary motivepower. These tunnels were mostlythrough hard ground and were driven by. FIRST TUNNEL IN .\MERICA.(Reproduced from Drinkers Tunneling.; nel of Pasilipo, on the road from Naplesto Pozzuoli, was built about 36 B. C,?nd is in use at the present time. The early tunnels in England werebuilt in connection with canals, as, in-deed, they were in this country. Thefirst English canal tunnel was finishedin 1777, and was on what was called theGrand Trunk Canal. It was 9 ft. wide,12 ft. high, and permitted a 7 ft. boatmoderately loaded, to pass througli.
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