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but there is no coiiipai-isou. The ^rcat taiiiicl is reii(;lie(l ;i few inoiaeiits 

 after passing the station at Aiiolo, ami for twenty-two and one-half 

 minutes of utter darkness we are passing' through a little more than 

 94 miles — the longest tunnel in the world, and it is with a feeling of 

 relief that one sees dajdight at Goeschenen at the northern end. I was 

 fortunate enough (o obtain for our section a good photograph of each 

 of the entrances to this great tunnel, and what ap})ears to be a very 

 acciu"ate ma}), scale 1 to 100,000, showing the location of all the tmiiiels 

 on the road, and giving a fair idea of the contour of the country. 



At Lucerne the St. Gothard Railway terminates, but the carriages run 

 through to Basle without change. 



The railway from i>asle to Strasburg is the best equi[)ped road I 

 saw on the Continent, the second-class compartment in the carriages, 

 constructed on the English plan, being upholstered in a bright durable 

 color, and as comfortable as many lirst-class carriages in England; quite 

 a relief after many days of somber blue-black on the other roads. On 

 this railway the track and road-bed are well taken care of, and fast time 

 is made. 



The German locomotives appeared to be more clumsy or old fash- 

 ioned any than we had seen, but their performance seemed very satisfac- 

 tory. 



The Belgian railways are well built and equipped ; last time is made 

 and the travel appears heavier than elsewhere on the Continent. The 

 locomotives on the road from Brussels to Antv>'erp seemed better cal- 

 culated for the work than on the Gernian roads. Shorter time was 

 spent at stations everywhere in Belgium and more dispatch given to 

 arriving and departing trains than elsewdiere. 



At various i)oints on the Continent experiments are being made with 

 glass, iron, and steel cross-ties for railways of heavy trafllc, and J doubt 

 if the tourist a few years hence will travel many miles over wooden 

 sleepers. 



EUliOl'EAN liAILWAY MUSEUM.S. 



South KendiKjton Museum. — To the student of the liistor^N' of steam 

 aud steam transportation the South Kensington (Patent) Museum con- 

 tains the most valuable and instructixe collection of objects abroad. 



The Englishman of to-day, justly proud of the inventive genius o^ the 

 last generation, is zealous to peri)etual(} the history of the results oi" t he 

 life work of Newcomen, Savery, Smeaton, Watt, JMurdoch, Trevithick, 

 George and Itobert Stej)iienson, and Symington. 



In our own country, however, with the exception of Fulton, no Amer- 

 ican inventor of steam ai)[)liances has received the meed of praise due 

 him, and yet no nation in the world owes so much to locomotive and 

 steam-ship inventors and railway constructors as our own. 



Owing to the limited area of Great Britain, however, which, exclusive 

 of Ireland, is a trifle less than the States of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the 

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