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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
56
In
happy
concurrence
with
this,
as
an
additional
preparation,
a
partial
survey
of
the
Atlantic
had
been
made
the
very
year
before
this
enterprise
was
begun,
in
1853.
Lieutenant
Berryman
was
the
first
who
applied
this
new
method
of
taking
deep-sea
soundings
to
that
part
of
the
Atlantic
lying
between
Newfoundland
and
Ireland,
with
results
most
surprising
and
satisfactory.
But
to
remove
all
doubt
it
seemed
desirable
to
have
a
fresh
survey.
To
obtain
this,
Mr.
Field
went
to
Washington
and
applied
to
the
Government
in
behalf
of
the
Company
for
a
second
expedition.
The
request
was
granted,
and
the
Arctic,
under
command
of
the
same
gallant
Lieutenant
Berryman,
was
assigned
to
this
service.
He
sailed
from
New
York
on
the
eighteenth
of
July,
1856,
and
the
very
next
day
Mr.
Field
left
on
the
Baltic
for
England,
to
organize
the
Atlantic
Telegraph
Company.
The
Arctic
proceeded
to
St.
John's,
and
thence
with
a
clear
eye
and
a
steady
hand,
this
true
sailor
went
"sounding
on
his
dim
and
perilous
way"
across
the
deep.
In
about
three
weeks
he
made
the
coast
of
Ireland,
having
carried
his
survey
along
the
great
circle
arc,
which
the
telegraph
was
to
follow
as
the
nearest
path
from
the
old
world
to
the
new.
The
result
fully
confirmed
his
belief
of
the
existence
of
a
great
plateau
underneath
the
ocean,
extending
all
the
way
from
one
hemisphere
to
the
other.
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