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The making of a great Canadian railway; the story of the search for and discovery of the search for and discovery of the route, and the constru ction of the nearly completed Grand trunk Pacific railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with some account of the hardships and stirring adventures of its constructors in unexplored country (1912)

Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose, 1880- · London : Seeley, Service & co. limited · leaf 162

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gripsof a mud-hole, and the freighters were in a sorry plight.The bad place was barely 100 feet across, but whenthe centre was gained, nothing of the vehicle was to beseen. Only the baulks of timber indicated that somethingon wheels was underneath. A solid hour and a half hadbeen occupied in going… … iK?ii«-.^-^„^X..,^- .. ^ c c.2 u - c•5 = J= 9 J3 - O 3 A BAD PLACE 139 take a short rest, the men seizing the opportunity for ahasty meal to reinvigorate their expended energies. By the time they had decided to resume operationsanother laden vehicle had arrived on their heels. Thesituation was…

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