The Elixir of Life : Or, 2905 A.D.; a Novel of the Far Future
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" Between France and England," he answered. " And what a lot of controversy the proposal of building this tunnel caused. At the mention of it men used to shrug their shoulders. One part of the English nation condemned the project, by saying that it would destroy the security which Great Britain's insular position accorded and would render her liable to attack by an invading army. 132 THE ELIXIR OF LIFE. "This opposition was chiefly led by a distinguished General, who had merely to invoke the sp...ectre of a foreign invasion to place most of this nation by his side. " I should tell you that some time before this a tunnel was started. " The Societe Francais du Tunnel Sous-Marin was incorporated in the early seventies for the purpose of carrying out this great work. A shaft was sunk on the French side of the Channel at a point about six miles from Calais, and the English terminus was fixed near to Dover. " A considerable amount of tunnelling was done by the French company, but after they had spent about half a million dollars, the British Government put a stop to the work, ostensibly for this reason, that a tunnel beneath the Channel would place us in fear of an invasion, as before mentioned.
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