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Ida Chamness letters, 1910-1922
1912-07-20 Page 18
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-18- They obstructed the sun in many places. Seventh month, 20, 1912. We left here for Roldal in two rigs. A distance of fourteen miles. The road was cut out of the rock in the side of the mountains. Here we passed the most dangerous scenes I ever saw. If the wheels of our vehicle in many places had one foot or eighteen inches out of the main track we would have been thrown over into the deep water among the brocken rocks in the river 600 feet. I often shuddered while I was on this road, in seeing the danger we were in as we passed along. Sometimes we would pass through a tunnel and onto a bridge accross the lake. It cost the government a vast sum of money to cut this road out of the side of the mountains. Ida Chamness got down to the foot of the vehicle and hid her face from these dangerous scenes. Ida's dream is as follows:-- "This was the place I saw in my dream while at Mary W. Stokes' home in Mooristown, several years before. I dreamed I passed just such a road; and I felt as if my breath would leave me. I hid my face in my hands, lying down feeling that God only could keep my spirit and body together. And that if I got over that road alive I would never pass that way again. Here the dream ended. And it proved to be the case exactly as my dream was. I was taken deathly sick whilst in Roldal at the hotel; not able to be taken in a vehicle. And
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-18- They obstructed the sun in many places. Seventh month, 20, 1912. We left here for Roldal in two rigs. A distance of fourteen miles. The road was cut out of the rock in the side of the mountains. Here we passed the most dangerous scenes I ever saw. If the wheels of our vehicle in many places had one foot or eighteen inches out of the main track we would have been thrown over into the deep water among the brocken rocks in the river 600 feet. I often shuddered while I was on this road, in seeing the danger we were in as we passed along. Sometimes we would pass through a tunnel and onto a bridge accross the lake. It cost the government a vast sum of money to cut this road out of the side of the mountains. Ida Chamness got down to the foot of the vehicle and hid her face from these dangerous scenes. Ida's dream is as follows:-- "This was the place I saw in my dream while at Mary W. Stokes' home in Mooristown, several years before. I dreamed I passed just such a road; and I felt as if my breath would leave me. I hid my face in my hands, lying down feeling that God only could keep my spirit and body together. And that if I got over that road alive I would never pass that way again. Here the dream ended. And it proved to be the case exactly as my dream was. I was taken deathly sick whilst in Roldal at the hotel; not able to be taken in a vehicle. And
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