Until these tunnels were built travelers were carried over the rocks to the other end of the road on the backs of men.
The railway on the eastern bank runs over the meadows and through occasional tunnels in the spurs of the cliffs.
Militarily, these tunnels are the most valuable section of the line; economically, they are the most costly and unremunerative.
Also the tunnels that were made with a view to escape are plain to be seen.
Another method consists in embedding a deep flower pot in one of the main tunnels of the animal, and carefully replacing the soil above.
It is a burrowing animal, and like the Mole drives its subterranean tunnels in all directions, throwing up little hillocks at regular intervals of from five to twenty feet.
The road, soon after starting, lay through a succession of valleys and lofty hills, rendering the construction of many tunnels and viaducts necessary.
He did not care how many of his enemies might thus be notified of his address, for he knew he could always change it with baffling celerity, blocking up his tunnels behind him as he went.
These they had had plenty of time to fortify, and the troops were housed in deep tunnels and properly connected up positions.
There was a stream of prisoners and munitions, in the tunnels of Mort-Homme over 1,000 men being unable to escape.
For imagine a suite of rooms above which the tides surge--rooms lighted by tunnels in the solid rock and covered over with strongest glasses which the sea cannot break.
Within, perhaps three, or even more, tunnelsbranch off from it.
For miles the water is siphoned across broad ravines in iron-banded stave pipe, or flows in tunnels through the cliffs.
Whole rivers are now flowing through tunnels that pierce lofty mountain ranges, and the water is being distributed in thousands of miles of canals to a million acres of desert.
In the case of these larger borers, whose tunnels may be as broad as the little finger, the foul smell as well as abundant "saw-dust" betray the evil.
Whitish leaf tunnels in Peas are excavated by Phytomyza.
The latter then occludes the tunnels by filling them up with cells, and continuing its wood-forming activity gradually buries them deeper and deeper in the wood.
Characteristic foxy-red tunnels are mined in the leaves of Apples by Lyonetia, Coleophora, etc.
One of the tunnels was no less than four and a half miles long, and another two and a half.
Consequently it would never do to make tunnels if they could be avoided, even if great distances had to be travelled.
The sheds are so built as to form no resistance to the sliding mass, which passes easily over their sloping roofs till they are like tunnels cut through a mountain of snow.
In England, tunnels do not count for very much because our mountains are not large, but in Colorado a tunnel would be a serious thing, particularly for a 'baby road.
In many places the railway tunnels through overhanging rocks, or winds round narrow shelves above gloomy precipices.
Among these mountains, in certain places, where, in winter, avalanches of snow are likely to occur, long sheds like tunnels are strongly built over the railway.
These tunnels were dangerous when you encountered caravans of pack animals coming through from the opposite direction.
In several places narrow tunnels had been excavated in the rock, through which the trail proceeded.
Along the railway rivers have been switched off through tunnels within the mountain, and produced picturesque cascades where they came out again.
The coal-beds form strata right across the hill, so that the miners can run their tunnels out to daylight in any direction, and need not fear the gas which is so troublesome in the bituminous diggings below.
I do not know how many hundreds of yards of underground tunnels we walked through, but it was an immense distance, yet the foreman said we had not been half way through it all.
In building the two great tunnels (St. Gotthard and Simplon) through portions of the Alps, such high temperatures were encountered that work was continued only under great difficulties.
Slowly indeed as compared with modern work of the kind, yet surely, where those earnest toilers desired a way, excavations went on and tunnels were formed with wedge and hammer and pickaxe.
It is obvious that small tunnels for single lines, of the usual standard gauge, may be constructed some distance below the ground, and yet the atmosphere of such tunnels be as pure as upon a railway on the surface.
They related to a world he had thought little about; a world within the world; just as the people who lived in tunnels and dark passages constituted another world within the world.
When he got out of limbo again, he lived in bad company, in one of the tunnels near the Adelphi; hard place for the police to rout a cove from.
In very long tunnels nothing should be omitted tending to reduce the number of men working in them.
A full consideration of the scheme by engineers preparing plans for new tunnels would no doubt throw further light upon the subject and be of interest wherever such work is contemplated.
The above shows the saving in the three tunnelsof 23 per cent.
Mr. Crampton maintains that the suggested system will give these, that three tunnels of, say, 17 ft.
That for the working tunnels would be practically the same, the velocities being nearly alike in both cases, which would be about 2½ miles per hour--the 30 ft.
Its shafts and tunnels measured over two miles under ground, and it had used more lumber in strengthing its walls, it was said, than was embraced in the whole of Virginia City overhead.
Her vast bridge andtunnels were not yet begun, but she was already prophesying great things for the future.
In part the road tunnels through the hillsides, in part runs along a shelf beside the precipice, and here and there crosses a mountain torrent by some massive bridge of masonry.
Avalanches slide down into the valleys every month of the year, and I passed through tunnels and bridges that are purposely constructed that the snow may thus slide over the roads without doing harm to any one.
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