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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
174
"You
can
now
descend
westward
as
gradually
as
you
came
up
from
the
Telegraph
landing,
to
the
shores
of
Placentia
Bay,
where
there
is
an
excellent
harbor
and
admirable
fisheries,
skirting
the
shore,
and
the
accompanying
road
of
the
land
Telegraph
line
leading
from
St.
John's
westward
through
the
island,
to
Cape
Ray.
At
this
season
of
the
year
game
is
very
abundant.
Reindeer
in
great
numbers,
bears,
wolves--others
very
numerous,
the
large
northern
hare,
foxes,
wild
geese,
ducks,
etc.
"About
four
miles
southward
of
the
entrance
of
the
bay
of
Bull's
Arm,
on
the
shore
of
Placentia
Bay,
is
situated
the
extraordinary
La
Manche
lead
mine,
the
property
of
the
Telegraph
Company,
already
yielding
a
rich
supply
of
remarkably
pure
galena.
The
place
where
the
cable
is
landed
is
memorable
in
the
history
of
the
island
as
the
naval
battle-ground
between
the
French
and
English
in
their
early
struggle
for
the
exclusive
occupancy
of
the
valuable
fisheries
along
the
coast."
[B]
This
is
an
error,
as
we
learn
on
the
high
authority
of
Professor
Thomson
himself.
It
was
defective
insulation,
not
any
"want
of
continuity,"
that
caused
the
weak
signals.
Want
of
continuity
would
have
stopped
the
signals
altogether,
and
given
quite
different
indications
on
the
testing
instruments
from
those
he
observed.
[C]
The
Niagara
had
sixty
miles
farther
to
run
than
the
Agamemnon,
to
land
the
cable
at
the
head
of
Trinity
Bay.
[D]
A
name
that
occurs
several
times
in
this
history,
and
one
never
to
be
mentioned
but
with
honor.
The
Knight
of
Kerry
was
Lord
of
the
Isles
on
that
part
of
the
Irish
coast;
and
from
the
beginning
showed
the
deepest
interest
in
this
enterprise;
and
by
his
generous
hospitality
to
all
connected
with
it
made
many
friends
by
whom
he
was
gratefully
remembered
on
both
sides
of
the
Atlantic.
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