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Excerpt from Rand, McNally and Co; 'S Guide to Southern California Direct: Narrative, Historical, Descriptive; With Notes on California at Large
Finally, a quarter of a mile down the glittering line, a monster creeps stealthily up. You notice a phosphorescent gleam when an iron door is opened by one who seems a gnome, and the white heat Of the furnace throws itself upon a curling cloud. There is an impatient Sizzle, furtive and deafening explosions of the pop-valve, a head out of the cab window watching for the. Waving hand or the momentary arc Of light from a swinging lantern. You hear a stroke upon some distant bell, a voice says, in a tone you have heard a thousand times without having particularly noticed it, something that sounds like ah-ye-wore, and the colossal caravan glides noiselessly away in the darkness, and is gone like the dream that it is, or rather, like the embodiment of all the dreams that tormented the souls of the fathers of the world, of the power and progress that Should come at last.
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