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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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FOOTNOTES:
[A]
Born
November
30,
1819,
in
Stockbridge,
Massachusetts,
the
son
of
a
Congregational
minister,
of
whom
three
sons
are
still
living:
Mr.
David
Dudley
Field,
of
New
York;
Mr.
Justice
Stephen
J.
Field,
of
the
Supreme
Court
of
the
United
States;
and
the
writer
of
the
present
volume.
[B]
From
Cape
Freels,
Newfoundland,
to
Erris
Head,
Ireland,
the
distance
is
sixteen
hundred
and
eleven
miles;
from
Cape
Charles,
or
Cape
St.
Lewis,
Labrador,
to
the
same
point,
the
distance
is
sixteen
hundred
and
one
miles.
CHAPTER
III.
THE
COMPANY
ORGANIZED.
And
so
the
young
New
York
merchant
set
out
to
carry
a
telegraph
across
the
Atlantic
Ocean!
The
design
had
in
it
at
least
the
merit
of
audacity.
But
whether
the
end
was
to
be
sublime
or
ridiculous
time
alone
could
tell.
Certain
it
is
that
when
his
sanguine
temper
and
youthful
blood
stirred
him
up
to
take
hold
of
such
an
enterprise,
he
little
dreamed
of
what
it
would
involve.
He
thought
lightly
of
a
few
thousands
risked
in
an
uncertain
venture;
but
never
imagined
that
he
might
yet
be
drawn
on
to
stake
upon
its
success
the
whole
fortune
he
had
accumulated;
that
he
was
to
sacrifice
all
the
peace
and
quiet
he
had
hoped
to
enjoy;
and
that
for
twelve
years
he
was
to
be
almost
without
a
home,
crossing
and
re-crossing
the
sea,
urging
his
enterprise
in
Europe
and
America.
But
so
it
is,
that
the
Being
who
designs
great
things
for
human
welfare,
and
would
accomplish
them
by
human
instruments,
does
not
lift
at
once
the
curtain
from
the
stern
realities
they
are
to
meet,
nor
reveal
the
rugged
ascents
they
are
to
climb;
so
that
it
is
only
when
at
last
the
heights
are
attained,
and
they
look
backward,
that
they
realize
through
what
they
have
passed.
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