ILLUSTRATIONS.

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I.[Vignette].
II.[Drilling machine] at heading, a photograph taken in Tunnel
 by Magnesium light, 7,760 feet from West Portal.
III.Stereoscopic view.Twelve cans after an explosion,[18]
IV.“ “West End, Hoosac Tunnel,[28]
V.“ “East End, Hoosac Tunnel,[39]
VI.“ “Nitro-Glycerin factory,[43]
VII.“ “““  interior of converting room,[46]
VIII.“ “Central shaft, Hoosac Tunnel,[50]
IX.Miners ascending  “ “ “ “[58]
X.Bursting of can, whilst conveying Nitro-Glycerin, Hoosac Tunnel,[66]
XI.Sinking Central Shaft, Hoosac Tunnel,[74]
XII.Profile of the Hoosac Mountain, shewing progress January 1, 1872, [80]
XIII."Stopeing out" enlargement, East End,[85]
XIV.Driving bench work and dumping from heading, West End,[90]

(Photographs taken by L. Daft, operating for Messrs. Thompson & Co., of Albany, the drawings by Assistant Engineers C. O. Wederkinch and G. Lunt, the wood-cuts by Andrew & Son, Boston.)