Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 196
ilroad through thecenter of the earth,and that he requiredfive billion dollars forthe undertaking. To the surprise ofeverybody,, the projectbecame popular, andthe capital came pour-ing in; so that in anincredibly short spaceof time the stupendoussum required for thisstrange enterprise was more than… … the gigantic machine devised for boring through the earth wasmasterpiece of invention. (see next page.) of hundred miles an hour, will then be able totravel some ten thousand miles in the same time,without noise or jolting. Surely that ought tobe some inducement, to say nothing of the VERITABLE…
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