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File:Channel Tunnel 1856 idea from Gamond 1a.png

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Thomé de Gamond's plan for a Channel tunnel, with a harbour mid-Channel on the Varne sandbank.
Date 1856
Source A scan of an old drawing, from Thomas Whiteside: The Tunnel under the Channel, page 16ish
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