Excerpt: ... do it. "I can't get away," he answered. "We're busier than we've ever been. But I'm going to Southampton to see the Gigantic start. The biggest boat in the world! My goodness! Tom's awfully excited about it. You'd think the Gigantic was his son!." Henry thanked heaven that at last the conversation had veered from factories and his engagement to Mary. He tried to fasten it to the Gigantic. "What are you so busy about that you can't go with Tom?" he asked. "Oh, heaps of things! Old Hare's keen on building a ...
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Excerpt: ... do it. "I can't get away," he answered. "We're busier than we've ever been. But I'm going to Southampton to see the Gigantic start. The biggest boat in the world! My goodness! Tom's awfully excited about it. You'd think the Gigantic was his son!." Henry thanked heaven that at last the conversation had veered from factories and his engagement to Mary. He tried to fasten it to the Gigantic. "What are you so busy about that you can't go with Tom?" he asked. "Oh, heaps of things! Old Hare's keen on building a Channel Tunnel, and he's spent a good deal of time working the thing out!" Mrs. Graham had always imagined that the proposal to build a Tunnel between France and England was a joke, and she said so. "Good heavens, mother!" Ninian exclaimed. "Old Hare isn't a joke. The thing's as practicable as the Tuppenny Tube. People have been experimenting for half-a-century with it. Joke, indeed! They've made seven thousand soundings in forty years!." "Really!" said Mrs. Graham. Pg 286 "And borings, too . lots of them . in the bed of the Channel. They've started a Tunnel, two thousand yards of it from Dover, under the sea, and there isn't a flaw in it. Hardly any water comes through, although there isn't a lining to the walls . just the bare, grey chalk. I was awfully sick when I was told I couldn't go to Harland and Wolff's, but I don't mind now. Building a Channel Tunnel is as big a job as building the Gigantic any day, and Hare is as brainy as Tom Arthurs!" He became oratorical about the Channel Tunnel, and he told them stories of remarkable borings on both sides of the sea. "There's a big thick bed of grey chalk all the way from England to France," he said, "and the water simply can't get through it. They've made experimental tubes from our side and from the French side, and they let people into them, and it was all right. No mud, no water, no foul air . perfectly sound!" He quoted Sartiaux, the French engineer, and Sir Francis Fox, the English engineer....
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Near Fine. pp. 571. 11900 shelf. With ads. Old price stamped front endpaper. Gold-stamped embossed deep green cloth. Blind-stamp front cover; no names, clean text. No dust jacket. Gold-stamped embossed deep green cloth 571 pgs.
