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Around the World in 80 Days
Chapter XXVIII
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT
DOES NOT SUCCEED IN
MAKING ANYBODY LISTEN
TO REASON
The train, on leaving Great Salt Lake at Ogden, passed
northward for an hour as far as Weber River, having
completed nearly nine hundred miles from San Francisco.
From this point it took an easterly direction towards the
jagged Wahsatch Mountains. It was in the section included
between this range and the Rocky Mountains that the
American engineers found the most formidable difficulties
in laying the road, and that the government granted a
subsidy of forty-eight thousand dollars per mile, instead of
sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains.
But the engineers, instead of violating nature, avoided its
difficulties by winding around, instead of penetrating the
rocks. One tunnel only, fourteen thousand feet in length,
was pierced in order to arrive at the great basin.
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