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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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CHAPTER
V.
THE
DEEP-SEA
SOUNDINGS.
When
a
landsman,
born
far
away
among
the
mountains,
comes
down
to
the
coast,
and
stands
for
the
first
time
on
the
shore
of
the
sea,
it
excites
in
him
a
feeling
of
awe
and
wonder,
not
unmingled
with
terror.
There
it
lies,
a
level
surface,
with
nothing
that
lifts
up
its
head
like
a
peak
of
his
native
hills.
And
yet
it
is
so
vast,
stretching
away
to
the
horizon,
and
all
over
the
sides
of
the
round
world;
with
its
tides
and
currents
that
sweep
from
the
equator
to
the
pole;
with
its
unknown
depths
and
its
ceaseless
motion;
that
it
is
to
him
the
highest
emblem
of
majesty
and
of
power--a
not
unworthy
symbol
of
God
himself.
In
proportion
to
its
mystery
is
the
terror
which
hangs
over
it.
A
vague
dread
always
surrounds
the
unknown.
And
what
so
unknown
as
the
deep,
unfathomable
sea?
For
thousands
of
years
the
sails
of
ships,
like
winged
birds,
have
skimmed
over
it,
yet
it
has
remained
the
one
thing
in
nature
beyond
alike
man's
knowledge
and
his
power:
Man
marks
the
earth
with
ruin,
His
control
stops
with
the
shore.
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