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The passenger experience in the sub-marine route's cars is described as thrillingly exciting [1]. Passengers are able to take in the wonders of ocean-land through large glass port-holes in the concave sides of circular cars [1, 2]. The tube itself has glass sides running parallel to the car's windows, ensuring an unobstructed view [1]. The scenery offered diversity due to sudden depressions and abrupt elevations of the sea-level, with abundant color from coralline plants and sub-marine flora [1]. Passengers can also choose their preferred climate for the journey, with cars marked for different temperatures, such as 70°, 80°, and 100° Fahr. [2, 3]. Some travelers spend their entire journey in the attached bath departments [2].
The speed of transit is described as terrific, with the cars being shot at five miles per minute [2]. Despite this speed, passengers could still appreciate the sights with the aid of instantaneous photographic processes applied to opera-glasses and telescopes, feeling they lost nothing by the rapidity of their passage [2]. The comforts and luxuries of this sub-marine route are said to be beyond belief, including perfected contrivances for supplying hot and…
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ng able to take in all the wonders of ocean-land through large glass port-holes in the concave sides of circular cars. The tube itself, which is of iron, enormously thick, has glass sides, also of huge thickness, running parallel with the windows of the car so that the view is unobstructed. The sensations awakened, therefore, both by the novelty of the situation and by the wonders we passed in review, combined to make the journey thrillingly exciting. We were swept, for instance, past armies of fishes, beautiful to behold in such masses, shimmering in their opalescent armor as they…
t command. The cars are indeed marked 70° Fahr., 80° and 100°. One buys one’s seat according to his taste for climate. Many of the travellers, I noticed, booked themselves for the bath department, remaining the entire journey in the Turkish, Russian, vapor or plunge departments--as the various baths attached to this line surpass a Roman voluptuary’s dream of such luxuries. I, however, never having been through the great tunnel before, was naturally more interested in what was passing so swiftly before my eyes. The speed at which we were shot was terrific--five miles to…
of so obsolete an expression that it must entirely fail to convey to you a true idea of the processes of the journey. Had I written--I was safely _shot_ into the country--this would much more graphically describe to you the method of my arrival. You may remember, perhaps, that before starting I found myself in very grave doubt as to which route to take--whether to come by balloon or by tunnel. As the latter route would enable me to enjoy an entirely novel spectacle, that of viewing sub-marine scenery, I chose, and wisely I now know, to come by the Pneumatic Tube Electric Company.…
seemed at times as if we were caught in a liquid cloud of amber, or were to be enmeshed in a grove of giant sea-weeds. Beyond all else, however, in point of interest, was the spectacle of the wholesale cannibalism going on among the finny tribes, a cannibalism which still exists, in spite of the persistent and unwearying exertions of the numerous Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty among Cetacea and Crustacea. We passed any number of small boats darting in and out among the porpoises, dolphins and smaller fish, delivering supplies (of proper Christian food) and…
Your life-long friend and comrade, WOLFGANG. II. DEAR HANNEVIG: The three days’ time which has elapsed since my last letter to you, has been so crowded with a confusion of bewildered impressions produced by this astonishing city and its still more astonishing inhabitants, that I am in doubt whether I shall be able to convey to you any clearer pictures than those which fill the disordered canvas of my own mind. I will, however, strive to reproduce my experiences in the order in which they came to me, and allow you to…