Excerpt from Society of Engineers: Transactions for 1871
During the past year we have to record both professional successes and failures. We may congratulate our professional brethren of Italy upon the completion of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, a work which testifies to the skill and indomitable perseverance of its projectors. The success which has rewarded this enterprise will not only be a material advantage to Italy and France, as so directly interested in it, but to many other countries also. Its completion will be of especial advantage to our own profession, as the success attending this great work will, no doubt, lead to the prosecution of similar works in various quarters of the globe, where English engineers are engaged, and where English capital will be employed.
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