Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 149
2,000 ft. in height, and so steep that no human foot has everyet followed the stream through this tremendous gorge (Fig. 53). A fewmiles beyond this the line is carried, by a daring feat of engineering, alongthe side of a mountain, overhanging a stream 2,500 ft. below. This moun-tain is known as… … Fig. 54.— Ca/^ i^^r/z. the shelving sides of the precipice, along whose dizzy height, where eventhe agile Indian was unable to plant his foot, the science of the white manthus made for his iron horse a secure and direct road. (Fig. 54.) These lines of railway, connecting Omaha with Sacramento, are…
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