A TRAVELLER’S DREAM.
A journal which evidently does not be-* lieve in the Channel Tunnel, says Fancy; froni Paris to New, York direct, with: only two hours’arid a half of sea passage !, This is the proposal ;of a Mr Gregory,; and if you take a map you will see how easy ..it is, and wonder that it never been attempted before. 1 - You gb from Paris to St. Petersburg, then across; Siberia into. Northern , Asia,, to East; Cape, where yon take’ a sterimer. ;.In: two hours and. a half this steamer, cross-: !ing Behring’s Straits, lands you. on the north-western ; point of the American Continent,, and the rest is-an uninterrupted railway run to New York. One; hundred and thirty hours is the timel calculated "for the run ; ’ but, of course,: the projector leaves out of the question; such, trifles as weather.in Siberia, attacks! by Tartars, and . Asiatic ' marauders generally. This sefieme and the Channel: Tunnel should be completed together.: We may then live to see a train drawn! up in Charing - Cross Station, ready to start for everywhere in general, and no-j where in particular; with:/ through car-; riages .labelled for ; to.iyns in, Europe,! Asia,’arid America/- - 7 J '
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Patea Mail, 1 May 1882, Page 3
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