The best wearing rails, which often give contradictory results with the tensile test, were comparatively pure manganese steels, low in silicon, only exceptionally up to 0.2 per cent., but generally below 0.1 per cent., and with less than 0.1 per cent.

the rails were relaid, spiked, and the roadway levelled and better ballasted than any road I ever saw south of Mason and Dixon's line.

"I thought rails were the steel things that cars run on, or else some kind of fence bars.

" "The Rails that Olaf speaks of are marsh birds," said the Doctor.

Route 15.By rail viâ Gan and Laruns, [Footnote: This railway was to be opened this year (1883).] and carriage from Laruns.

Route 15.By rail viâ Gan and Laruns, [Footnote: This railway was to be opened this year (1883).] and carriage from Laruns.

The walls were smutted, the hand rail felt greasy, the air was stale.