NAPOLEON AND A CHANNEL TUNNEL.
Tho project of a Channel tunnel is a hundred years old, and, oddly enough, was for a brief spaco entertained by Napoloon. In 1802, a French enginoor drew up elaborate plans of effecting subterranean communication with England and laid them before tho First Consul. A tunnel was to bo pierced between Calais and Dover, composed of two portions connected by an artificial islet, on which latter should bo built an international town ! Napoleon's practised intellect at onco roalised that much more scientific knowlodgo was required for tho furlhornnco of such a scheme, nnd tho mntter completely dropped. Half a century later nnother French engineer, named Do Gnntond, took up the notion, and, indeed, mttdo it tho objoct of liis me.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1904, Page 13
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125NAPOLEON AND A CHANNEL TUNNEL. Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1904, Page 13
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