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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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And
so
at
length,
after
two
long
and
weary
years,
these
bold
projectors
had
accomplished
half
their
work.
They
had
passed
over
the
land,
and
under
the
Gulf
of
St.
Lawrence,
and
having
reached
the
farthest
point
of
the
American
coast,
they
now
stood
upon
the
cliffs
of
Newfoundland,
looking
off
upon
the
wide
sea.
FOOTNOTES:
[A]
One
or
two
exceptions
there
were,
not
to
be
forgotten.
Professor
William
Thomson,
of
the
University
of
Glasgow,
then
a
young
man,
but
full
of
the
enthusiasm
of
science,
was
already
prepared
to
welcome
such
a
project,
with
confidence
of
success.
As
early
as
October
and
November,
1854,
he
wrote
to
the
Secretary
of
the
Royal
Society
of
London,
declaring
his
belief
in
its
practicability.
The
letters
are
published
in
the
Proceedings
of
the
Royal
Society
for
1855.
Such
faith
was
not
visionary,
for
it
was
based
on
clearer
knowledge
and
more
thorough
investigation,
and
gave
promise
of
those
eminent
services
which
this
gentleman
was
afterwards
to
render
to
the
cause
of
electrical
science.
Mr.
C.
F.
Varley,
also,
was
one
of
the
first
to
perceive
the
possibility
of
an
ocean
telegraph,
as
he
was
to
contribute
greatly
to
its
final
success.
[B]
The
letters
of
Mr.
Taylor,
which
first
appeared
in
The
New
York
Tribune
have
been
since
collected
in
one
of
his
volumes
of
travel.
Mr.
O'Brien,
a
very
brilliant
writer,
who
afterward
fell
in
our
civil
war,
fighting
bravely
for
his
adopted
country,
furnished
some
spirited
letters
to
The
Times.
But
Mr.
Mullaly,
who
appeared
for
The
Herald,
was
the
most
persevering
attendant
on
the
Telegraph,
and
the
most
indefatigable
correspondent.
He
accompanied
not
only
this
expedition,
but
several
others.
He
was
on
board
the
Niagara
in
1857,
and
again
in
both
the
expeditions
of
1858;
and
on
the
final
success
of
the
cable,
prepared
a
volume,
which
was
published
by
the
Appletons,
giving
a
history
of
the
enterprise.
This
contains
the
fullest
account
of
all
those
expeditions
which
has
been
given
to
the
public.
I
have
had
frequent
occasion
to
refer
to
his
book,
and
can
bear
witness
to
the
interest
of
the
narrative.
It
is
written
with
spirit,
and
doubtless
would
have
had
a
longer
life,
if
the
cable
itself
had
not
come
to
an
untimely
end.
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