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which way, ^[[insertion]] the rails sagging over the gap. [[/insertion]] The new track made a big half circle around it. The low place was filled with wooden railroad ties piled cross-ways [[image: ties laid across each other in grid pattern]], several tiers of them and the rails were laid on top. The train ran very slowly. Leaning out the window one could see the whole thing. [[margin, vertical blue line]] Much of the country looked like Illinois in a wet spring, crops and trees sticking up out of the water. Coming west from São Paulo the country gradually flattens [[/margin]]