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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
153
FOOTNOTES:
[A]
It
should
be
said,
however,
in
justice
to
Mr.
Bright,
that
most
of
these
defects
he
had
himself
perceived
on
seeing
it
in
operation.
On
his
return
from
the
expedition
of
1857,
he
sent
in
a
report,
pointing
out
the
defects
of
the
machinery,
and
how
to
remedy
them.
These
suggestions
were
approved
by
the
Scientific
Committee,
and
carried
out
by
Mr.
Everett.
The
recognition
of
this
fact,
while
it
takes
nothing
from
the
practical
skill
shown
by
the
American
engineer,
is
but
just
to
his
predecessor,
who,
as
the
pioneer
in
this
work,
might
easily
fall
into
mistakes,
which
it
needed
only
time
and
experience
to
correct.
[B]
As
there
is
no
trouble
without
a
compensation,
it
is
something
that
this
voyage,
fearful
as
it
was,
furnished
a
subject
for
a
description
of
marvellous
power.
The
letter
to
the
London
Times,
written
by
Mr.
Woods,
its
correspondent
on
board
the
Agamemnon,
is
one
of
the
finest
descriptions
of
a
storm
at
sea
we
know
of
in
the
language.
It
is
a
wonderful
specimen
of
"word-painting,"
and
brings
the
scene
before
us
with
a
vividness
like
that
of
the
marine
paintings
of
Stanfield
or
Turner.
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