Show I 1 tho ilio toni rost tunnel el in inthe abi world an engineering 0 fork that has taken 0 over a century to construct chu c can hu hardly fail towler to offer somo some points of interest in its history and nil illustrate the march of events during the years of its progress s an il instance istance of this kind ls is to lie be found in a tunnel not lo 10 long ng a a since ince completed but which W was is commenced over a hundred eara cars ago a 0 tills this tunnel or adita it should be more strictly ter termed nied is at in hungary its construction was agreed vilon upon in A 2 the object being 10 in t lu 1 carry off the 4 water float the anitz mines to the lowest part of the grand Vi valley tiley the rhe work is id now dow complete and according to the tit t fur it forms tie hie I 1 longest tunnel in the world being 1027 miles long ion or about 1 mile mire longer than st goth nud and 2 miles 1 longer than mont alon i ce cna ve the is 6 it ft 10 it in and lite alie I 1 breadth 5 ft 3 A in ili this tunnel winch which lims taken ta so iio long iong 7 in in making aking hm his cost very nearly a million ht eding but the money appears to have feen been well spent at least the present generation has no ito reason to grumble giuma I 1 e for the saevii saving front from bein being able to do away avi with Is it w aler raiding appliances mounts amounts to A a year scar there is ia one further point however worth notice for if wu we lime the advantage of our oui 10 arcil ci e i 1 0 t ti ii afi t 1 i e i s i in i i the file matter of in r 1 1 i III i c 1 l appliance i 1 i 1 1 i li i c es taley certainly were bett eroff in tile the price of labor the original contract for tile the tl tunnel innel inalle in 1782 was that it should be completed in thirty 3 years car and should wilt xa 7 per 3 ard T run ll 11 n I 1 for eleven 3 icara cam file work casdone hiis done nt it this prie but t lie french revolution enhanced the cost of labor and materials to such nil fill extent that for thirty i cara little progress was made for ten years following much progress was male made and then the work dropped for twenty years moie until the water threatened to drown the mines out altogether finally the tunnel was M completed in the remaining lema ining part costing coating 22 a yards yard or more tl than tan till three cc times as much as the original contract rate I 1 effic american thier ti ier ann cnn |