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Around the World in 80 Days
The train passed rapidly across the State of Iowa, by
Council Bluffs, Des Moines, and Iowa City. During the
night it crossed the Mississippi at Davenport, and by Rock
Island entered Illinois. The next day, which was the 10th,
at four o’clock in the evening, it reached Chicago, already
risen from its ruins, and more proudly seated than ever on
the borders of its beautiful Lake Michigan.
Nine hundred miles separated Chicago from New
York; but trains are not wanting at Chicago. Mr. Fogg
passed at once from one to the other, and the locomotive
of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway left
at full speed, as if it fully comprehended that that
gentleman had no time to lose. It traversed Indiana, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey like a flash, rushing through
towns with antique names, some of which had streets and
car-tracks, but as yet no houses. At last the Hudson came
into view; and, at a quarter-past eleven in the evening of
the 11th, the train stopped in the station on the right bank
of the river, before the very pier of the Cunard line.
The China, for Liverpool, had started three-quarters of
an hour before!
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