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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
258
But
accident
or
villainy,
it
was
defeated
this
time,
and
the
Great
Eastern
proudly
continued
her
voyage.
Not
the
slightest
check
interrupted
their
progress
for
the
next
three
days,
during
which
they
passed
over
five
hundred
miles
of
ocean.
It
was
now
they
enjoyed
their
greatest
triumph.
They
were
in
the
middle
of
the
Atlantic,
and
thus
far
the
voyage
had
been
a
complete
success.
The
ship
seemed
as
if
made
by
Heaven
to
accomplish
this
great
work
of
civilization.
The
paying-out
apparatus
was
a
piece
of
mechanism
to
excite
the
enthusiasm
of
an
engineer,
so
smoothly
did
its
well-oiled
wheels
run.
The
strain
never
exceeded
fourteen
hundred-weight,
even
in
the
greatest
depths
of
the
Atlantic.
And
as
for
the
cable
itself,
it
seemed
to
come
as
near
perfection
as
it
was
possible
to
attain.
As
before,
the
insulation
was
greatly
improved
by
submergence
in
the
ocean.
With
every
lengthening
league
it
grew
better
and
better.
It
seems
almost
beyond
belief,
yet
the
fact
is
fully
attested
that,
when
in
the
middle
of
the
ocean,
the
communication
was
so
perfect
that
they
could
tell
at
Valentia
every
time
the
Great
Eastern
rolled.[C]
With
such
omens
of
success,
who
could
but
feel
confident?
And
when
on
Monday
they
passed
over
a
deep
valley,
where
lay
"the
bones
of
three
Atlantic
cables,"
it
was
with
a
proud
assurance
that
they
should
not
add
another
to
the
number.
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