Author: Chase S. OsbornPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282673024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Excerpt from The Andean Land (South America), Vol. 2 of 2 All is different in South America, although it possesses a white civilization more than a century Older than that Of New England or Virginia, and the distance across at the point where the first transcontinental road is being built, from Val paraiso to Buenos Ayres, is only a quarter of that between New York and San Francisco, or, in exact figures, eight hundred and eighty-eight miles. This Transandine Railroad will not be completed for five years, and perhaps longer. One tunnel, forty-five kilometres long, or ten miles longer than the great Simplon Tunnel in the Alps, remains yet to be built, with nine ventilat ing shafts, and only five kilometres of the work is finished. But it will be completed some day, and the optimistic management declares its hope to be that it will be finished in three years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
