. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . ssley, Ihave ever seen. In the same side of the hill the strata riseup from a horizontal position till they are not far from per-pendicular. The other is on the same railway somewhat south ofArmathwaite. The line runs through a long ancient forest, calledBaron or Barren Wood, in some places thickly timbered withoak and ash, fir and beech ; and in others covered with brush- i i s OUR [RON ROADS. I .miI bracken. A heavy cutting then runs through thewood for a distance o( nearly a mile ; the hill slopes 150 feet tothe waters edge.
. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . ssley, Ihave ever seen. In the same side of the hill the strata riseup from a horizontal position till they are not far from per-pendicular. The other is on the same railway somewhat south ofArmathwaite. The line runs through a long ancient forest, calledBaron or Barren Wood, in some places thickly timbered withoak and ash, fir and beech ; and in others covered with brush- i i s OUR [RON ROADS. I .miI bracken. A heavy cutting then runs through thewood for a distance o( nearly a mile ; the hill slopes 150 feet tothe waters edge. Here, among beautiful views, arc the re-markable reeks that raise, for perhaps 100 feet, their shatteredand fretted summits, and form the entrance to what is knownas Samsons Cave. The water washes their base. The viewis depicted in our engraving as seen from the other side of thebeautiful river Eden. The rocks of Samsons Cave are infront. The vicissitudes that arise in the prosecution of railway workare sometimes very serious. Before us lies a letter of a young. DOVE HOLES CUTTING. engineer, named Sharland, to whose memory we have elsewherepaid a tribute, in which he describes an accident that occurredwhen making the cutting at the north end of the Blea Moortunnel on the Settle and Carlisle line. We have had, hesays, a terrible storm. A waterspout burst over our men were all at work as usual, when without two minuteswarning a sheet of water came tearing down the tunnel hill likean immense wave, five feet in height. Down it came, rightinto a cutting where fortunately there were only seven menat work ; but before the poor fellows could run ten yards it wason them, and two of them were drowned immediately; also DOVE HOLES CUTTING. 119 a horse, which was in the act of drawing a wagon towards thetip, was overtaken, and in less than twenty minutes, both horseand wagon were buried under some hundred tons of debris fromthe mountain side. You never saw a more perfect wreck t
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