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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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CHAPTER
XVII.
Page
347
Return
to
Mid-Ocean
to
search
for
the
Cable
lost
the
Year
before.
Dragging
in
the
Deep
Sea.
Repeated
Failures.
Cable
finally
recovered
and
completed
to
Newfoundland
CHAPTER
XVIII.
Page
376
The
Afterglow.
Honors
conferred
in
England
and
America.
Commercial
Revolution
wrought
by
the
Cable.
Mr.
Field
and
the
Elevated
Railroads
in
New
York
City.
Tour
round
the
World.
Last
Years.
Death
in
1892
STORY
OF
THE
ATLANTIC
TELEGRAPH
CHAPTER
I.
THE
BARRIER
OF
THE
SEA.
When
Columbus
sailed
from
the
shores
of
Spain,
it
was
not
in
search
of
a
New
World,
but
only
to
find
a
nearer
path
to
the
East.
He
sought
a
western
passage
to
India.
He
had
adopted
a
traditionary
belief
that
the
earth
was
round;
but
he
did
not
once
dream
of
another
continent
than
the
three
which
had
been
the
ancient
abodes
of
the
human
race--Europe,
Asia,
and
Africa.
All
the
rest
was
the
great
deep.
The
Florentine
sage
Toscanelli,
from
his
knowledge
of
the
world
so
far
as
then
discovered,
had
made
a
chart,
on
which
the
eastern
coast
of
Asia
was
represented
as
lying
opposite
to
the
western
coast
of
both
Europe
and
Africa.
Accepting
this
theory,
Columbus
reasoned
that
he
could
sail
direct
from
Spain
to
India.
No
intervening
continent
existed
even
in
his
imagination.
Even
after
he
had
crossed
the
Atlantic,
and
descried
the
green
woods
of
San
Salvador
rising
out
of
the
western
seas,
he
thought
he
saw
before
him
one
of
the
islands
of
the
Asiatic
coast.
Cuba
he
believed
was
a
part
of
the
mainland
of
India;
Hayti
was
the
Ophir
of
King
Solomon;
and
when,
on
a
later
voyage,
he
came
to
the
broad
mouth
of
the
Orinoco,
and
saw
it
pouring
its
mighty
flood
into
the
Atlantic,
he
rejoiced
that
he
had
found
the
great
river
Gihon,
which
had
its
rise
in
the
garden
of
Eden!
Even
to
the
hour
of
his
death,
he
remained
ignorant
of
the
real
extent
of
his
magnificent
discovery.
It
was
reserved
to
later
times
to
lift
the
curtain
fully
from
the
world
of
waters;
to
reveal
the
true
magnitude
of
the
globe;
and
to
unite
the
distant
hemispheres
by
ties
such
as
the
great
discoverer
never
knew.
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