Show I 1 ila lia t i T tunnell qua TUA G UNDER wili till SEA sla i 14 A A scheme clime has been propos proposed dd for uniting ireland and scotland so as to db away with the necessity of makings i sea passage altogether the entrance bt the railway tunnel by which it is to be accomplished on the irish to be from a point about midway between Cus henden and cushendall Cush endall on the t coast of antrim and on the scotch h c side at Glen Glena trone strone from whence 4 1 I would run through the head of the mul mu of cantere Oan Can tyre the total length of th tunnel under water would be 14 mile mlle il 3 furlongs and it is said thamm that th thi ground round through which it would have t be e made is exactly suited for tunneling lill opera operations mons and the sandstone for lini linin t it can be had in any quantity on t to 31 irish shore it is proposed to construe eon con strut a the tunnel for a single line only 01 extreme depth being twenty one feir and the clear width at the level of tp the rails fifteen feet it is proposed hoff 41 ever to lay down three lines of rails to k accommodate wide and narrow gauge ed carri carrl carriages ages aFes the gradient at the entrance iia ial of the tunnel on the irish irysh side would bhone be one in sixty for about five miles it would buld then fall to one in eighty two for about half that distance and to one in for about five miles in the centre of the tunnel under the water rising rh mg from that to one in then to one in then to one in sixty for about the same distance as on the irish side which continues to the entrance of the tunnel on the scotch side the estimated time that would be occupied in completing the tunnel is allowing for all contingencies gen cles cies under six years and the cost under four and a quarter millions to pay a dividend of five per cent the weekly barnin earnings ga must be per mile and an estimate is appended to show that the gross earnings would be largely in excess of this amount and that the mineral resources of the land in the immediate vicinity of the irish end of the tunnel would be immensely developed nobody wi vili be disposed to de deny dy that a railway communication between the rhe two countries would be a very desil i able think thinh thief ff it can be accomplished lj i r |