Upon landing at the Everglades, we went afoot over a plank walk to the observatory. This we climbed, and had a fine view of the country for miles around. We were informed that a western syndicate had made a deal of a million and a half dollars in those Everglades lands.
The full work is here.Fifty Years on the Rail
And be sure to read the Suggestions to Beginners. There is an entire art of steam locomotives, much of which you can imagine was captured only in oral history, and is almost entirely lost now. We will be saying the same of much of today's technology in 100 years -- even though we think that we have enormous amounts of written documentation on the Internet sufficient to explain to some future observer every detail of what we do, the fact is that often the most interesting parts are the ones that aren't written down anywhere.
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