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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 230

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n the surface of themorass. The mattress was then sunk into the unstable soilby superimposed stone and earthen embankment, andimmersed completely in water, where in course of time itwill be transformed into a solid and substantial plinth, asthe wood becomes water-logged thoroughly. Trestling had to… … BEAVERS VERSUS ENGINEERS 195 crossed in this manner, the requisite structure entailing theerection of a network of timber half a mile in length by125 feet in height at the centre, whereas the creek itself isan insignificant brook barely 20 feet across. In the centrethe trestle is composed of five…

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