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Show SUBWAYS IN EUROPE. With thla centur's close has come a rovlval ot the tendency to dig below ground A few decades ago there were no long burrowing tunnels under London Lon-don except Ihe wlno cellars on the rlver'a edge, where for centurlea they had existed, miles In length To-day aa much traffic goea on under as above the atreets It Is feared big buildings may collapse as a result ot tbe tunneling tunnel-ing No one knows the extent of underground under-ground Prrls There are constantly being found subways and tunnels, the existence ot which was nqt known and subterranean vaults and passages are met with whenever excavation takes place These long passages are ot great use to burglara and criminals, who know their extent and profit thereby Home la cut up underneath like Paris These subterranean passages were In existence In tbe earliest daya of the Christian era, but were closed and forgotten till the seventeenth century, cen-tury, when they were discovered No one knows their extent, though they may measure easily 1 000 miles. |