CHANNEL TUNNEL.

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Correspondence with Reference to the Proposed Construction of a Channel Tunnel. First edition of the evidence submitted to the parliamentary select committee inquiring into the viability of continuing the construction of the Channel Tunnel, given its potential military risk.A channel tunnel was first proposed in 1802, and various other proposals were submitted to the British and French governments in the subsequent decades. In 1881, tunnelling began on both sides, but in 1883, after reviewing the evidence, the select committee concluded it posed too great an invasion risk and the project was abandoned.

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