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SEVERAL attempts have been made to pass under the Thames. The chalk and alluvial deposits of the valley at Gravesend would even now offer formidable, if not insurmountable, difficulties to the attempt, once made, to tunnel through strata with water sources so un-manageable. The Thames bed at Limehouse had hidden dangers, which, however, did not succeed in stopping the bold attempt, made some forty years since, to pass beneath the river—an attempt carried in fact to a successful issue in spite of innumerable difficulties, but at an overwhelming expense. The skill and ingenuity displayed were equal to the occasion, but the object attained was not commensurate with the magnitude of the work, and for years it served rather as a warning than an example to be followed.
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PRESTWICH, J. The Thames Subway . Nature 1, 280–281 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001280a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/001280a0