The breakwater at Cherbourg, founded in rough water sixty feet, deep, at an average distance of more than two miles from the shore, contains double the mass of the pyramid, and [Pg 333] many a comparatively unimportant railroad has been constructed at twice the cost which would now build that stupendous monument.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh
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