The Great Bore
A Souvenir Of The Hoosac Tunnel
Forfatter: J.L. Harrison
År: 1891
Forlag: Advance Job Print Works
Sted: North Adams
Sider: 74
UDK: 624.19
A History Of The Tunnel, With Sketches Of North Adams, Its Vicinity And Drives; Williams-Town And Mount Greylock
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of the Deerfield and Hoosac and has left this bluff
to test the perseverance and eneigy of man. ome
day it will become the great thorough-fare from
Liverpool to Pekin, and the embassador rom the
court of St. James to China will pass up the Deci
field valley on his way to Canton.
The prophecy of fonr-and-forty years ago was
realized! practically if not literally, when onNovem-
ber 27 1873, an electric spark fired the last gi
blast and the travail of the mountain was complete.