Show WILL IT COME TO PASS scheme for a line from america tc asia and etrope it isquitt is quits probable that some of those jaye will make an all rail journey froin new how caa thir when three thousand mileson mi lesof atlantic ocean separate our continent from isles england lies to the east but to reach it by railway the traveler will start riding day affer day and after hight he reaches the opposite side of the globe where cesi and and separate and on still west wards he in london having well nigh circumscribed the globe this is n idle fancy the scheme involves no F ocean ferrying no stupendous and impracticable i bridge building from the eastern of america fo the western border of england there stretches continuous dryland with the exception of the narrow end comparatively shallow straits of behring between america and asia perhaps thirty miles wide the narrow english chaa nel only twenty miles across and the rivers science already knows how to saab As for the english channel capital has for years beba ready and anxious to tunner beneath it and thus connect britain nd France inary work sufficient to establish the entire feasibility of the enterprise s s was long ago made and but for the strange fear of french invasion which ai present dominates a majority 01 the english people the channel tunnel might already be an almost accomplished complis hed fact jt is impossible to believe that tho bold britons will long yield to this spell of timidity and BO the possibility of eventually reaching great britain by rail from europe may be admitted the great obstacle however is the immense distance which must be traversed across tho bussian empire the czar has in contemplation it is said a line from st Pe to the pacific They iberian desert as it is marked on the mapa is by no means so desolate a many believe indeed the greater part of it is a vast fertile plain not unlike those between denver and the mississippians Mississippi and were communication muni cation once established through this almost unknown part of the world a large amount of immigration which is flocking to america would ba directed thither if the czar should interpose no objections or obstacles in this day of gigantic projects nothing is so stupendous as to he thought absurd aad possibly future generations may eee a band of etsel encircling the globe with the exception of the atlantic between london york but it would take millions yes billions of dollars to build anch a road and whether it would pay or not is something beyond present knowledge the distance would be as follows miles new york to port moody british america port moody to behring straits 2000 Behring to ural mountains strai mountains to blondon ondon JL total new york to london all rail |