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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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"Thursday.--All
day
yesterday
it
was
as
'thick
as
mustard.'
We
have
had
now
forty-eight
hours
of
fog.
Though
it
lifted
a
little
this
morning,
at
five
A.M.,
it
still
looks
like
more
of
it.
Captain
Anderson
signalled
to
the
Albany,
at
fifteen
minutes
past
ten
last
night,
to
start
at
daybreak,
and
proceed
to
discover
the
station
ship,
and
report
us
at
hand.
Should
she
fail
to
find
her,
then
to
try
and
make
the
land
and
guide
us
up
Trinity
Bay.
Another
signal
was
sent
at
half-past
twelve
to
the
effect
that
the
Terrible
and
Medway
would
be
sent
ahead
to
meet
the
Albany
and
establish
a
line
to
lead
us
in
even
with
a
fog.
The
Albany
started
at
half-past
three.
At
forty-five
minutes
past
four,
Greenwich
time,
the
cable
engineer
in
charge
took
one
weight
off
each
brake
of
the
paying-out
machinery.
At
forty
minutes
past
seven
all
weights
taken
off,
the
assumed
depth
being
three
hundred
fathoms.
The
indicated
strain
on
the
dynamometer
gradually
decreasing.
Speed
of
ship
five
knots.
We
are
going
to
try
and
pick
up
the
cable
of
1865
in
two
thousand
five
hundred
fathoms
(and
we
mean
to
succeed
too);
therefore
should
the
cable
we
are
now
paying
out
part,
it
can
be
understood
how
easy
it
would
be
to
raise
it
from
a
depth
of
three
hundred
fathoms.
At
fifty-five
minutes
past
eight
we
signalled
to
the
Terrible
to
sound,
and
received
a
reply,
one
hundred
and
sixty
fathoms.
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