The tunnel, which runs due east and west, is, or will be, two miles and a half in length and three hundred and sixty-five feet in depth at the deepest part from the earth's surface.

I'm working the four claims as a group, and the tunnel is now eighty feet.

Militarily, these tunnels are the most valuable section of the line; economically, they are the most costly and unremunerative.

Paris to be seen, and the tunnel, and the railways through Italy, and the Suez Canal,all these places, not delightful to the wives of Indian officers coming home or going out, were an Elysium to the post-office mind.

The Thames tunnel is too amphibious an affair to be included in the number; but the ship canal project, the bridge-building mania, and the penchant for working mines by steam, evidently belong to them.

This tunnel is the longest and deepest municipal bore in the world.

And now, if any of my young friends who may read this book should ever visit London, and go to see the great tunnel, as they gaze in wonder at it, let them remember Sir I. Brunel, and that little ship-worm; and then, let them say to themselves: "This mighty tunnel is an illustration of the truth that humility helps to make us useful.