... the bottom of the deep sea is concerned. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest points is about 1,600 miles;* and the bottom of the sea between the two places is a plateau, which seems to have been placed there especially for... Mechanics' Magazine - Page 2771854Full view - About this book
| 1855 - 424 pages
...concerned. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest points is about 1,600 miles ;* and the bottom of the sea between the two places is a plateau, which seems to have been placed therq especially for the purpose of holding the wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them... | |
| American Geographical and Statistical Society - 1852 - 610 pages
...bottom for it. From Newfoundland to Ireland the distance between the nearest points is about 1,000 mHcs, and the bottom of the sea between the two places is a plateau which scorns to have been placed there especially for the purpose of holding the wires of a submarine telegraph,... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1854 - 664 pages
...concerned. " From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest point is about 1,600 miles;* and the bottom of the sea between the two places is...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them » Prom Cape Preels, Newfoundland, to Erris Head, Ireland, the distance is 1,611 miles; from Cape Charle»... | |
| 1854 - 750 pages
...concerned. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest points is about 1,600 miles;* and the bottom of the sea between the two places is...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires, but once... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1854 - 246 pages
...river St. Lawrence, and the west coast of Ireland, the bottom consists of a plateau, which, as he says, "seems to have been placed there especially for the...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep, that the wires but once... | |
| 1855 - 424 pages
...concerned. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest points is about 1,600 miles ;• and the bottom of the sea between the two places is...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires, but once... | |
| 1855 - 424 pages
...concerned. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest points is about 1,600 miles ;* and the bottom of the sea between the two places is...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires, but once... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1855 - 318 pages
...St. Lawrence, and the west coast of Ireland, the bottom consists of a plateau, which, as he says, " seems to have been placed there especially for the...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow; yet it is so deep, that the wires but once... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 pages
...the secretary of the navy at Washington, that the bottom of the sea between Ireland and Newfoundland 'is a plateau, which seems to have been placed there...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires, when... | |
| Charles Frederick Briggs, Augustus Maverick - 1858 - 452 pages
...concerned. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest points is about 1,600 miles ;* and the bottom of the sea between the two places is...wires of a Submarine Telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires but once... | |
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