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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
133
Your
----
"Cyrus
W.
Field."
The
day
that
this
was
written,
Mr.
Field
landed
at
Portsmouth,
and
at
once
hastened
to
London
to
meet
the
Directors.
At
first
it
was
a
question
if
they
should
renew
the
expedition
this
year.
But
their
brief
experience
had
shown
the
need
of
more
ample
preparations
for
their
next
attempt.
They
required
six
hundred
miles
more
of
cable
to
make
up
for
over
three
hundred
lost
in
the
sea,
and
to
provide
a
surplus
so
as
to
run
no
risk
of
falling
short
from
other
accidents;
and
most
of
all
they
needed
better
machinery
to
pay
out
the
cable
into
the
ocean.
These
preparations
required
time,
and
before
they
could
be
made,
it
would
be
late
in
the
autumn.
Hence
they
reluctantly
decided
to
defer
the
expedition
till
another
year.
The
Niagara
and
the
Agamemnon
therefore
discharged
their
cable
at
Plymouth,
whence
the
Niagara
returned
home;
and
Mr.
Field,
after
remaining
a
few
weeks
in
London
to
complete
the
preparations
for
the
next
year,
sailed
for
America.
He
returned
to
find
that
a
commercial
hurricane
had
swept
over
the
country,
in
which
a
thousand
stately
fortunes
had
gone
down,
and
in
which
the
wealth
he
had
accumulated
by
years
of
toil
had
nearly
suffered
shipwreck.
Such
were
the
tidings
that
met
him
on
landing.
It
had
been
a
year
of
disappointments
in
England
and
America--of
disasters
on
land
and
sea--and
all
his
high
hopes
were
In
the
deep
bosom
of
the
ocean
buried.
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