Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

Snow Blockade on the Pacific Railroad

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Snow Blockade on the Pacific Railroad

COMMON snow fall for trains to be delayed by these almost is hardly noticed impenetrable snow drifts. by the railroad men, Sometimes it has…

Snow Blockade on the Pacific Railroad: Arctic

Captain Scoresby, the Arctic traveller, who be coveted.

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