Connecting the North Sea with the Mediterranean an inland waterway, recently completed by French engineers after nearly 100 years, runs for five miles under a mountain. _ This required dig- j ging a tunnel 47Mt high and 72ft wide to accommodate big barges. More than 74,000,000 cubic feet of material were removed in the construction, over twice as much as was handled in building the famous St. Golhard tunnel and 20,000,000 cubic feet more than came out of the 12-mile long Simplon bore.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19904, 25 September 1926, Page 14
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82Page 14 Advertisements Column 5 Otago Daily Times, Issue 19904, 25 September 1926, Page 14
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