 | American Geographical and Statistical Society - 1852 - 610 páginas
...of Ireland. He remarks : " The bottom consists of a plateau, which seems to have been placed there especially for the purpose of holding the wires of...too deep nor too shallow. Yet it is so deep that the wire, once landed, will remain forever beyond the reach of vessels, anchors, icebergs, and drifts of... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1854 - 466 páginas
...of Ireland, the bottom consists of a plateau, which, as he says, " seems to have been placed there especially for the purpose of holding the wires of...deep, that the wires but once landed, will remain for ever beyond the reach of vessels, anchors, icebergs, and drifts of any kind ; and so shallow that... | |
 | 1854 - 750 páginas
...and the bottom of the sea between the two places if a plateau which seems to have been placed there especially for the purpose of holding the wires of...harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow; yet is so deep that the wires, but once landed, will remain for ever beyond the reach of vessels' anchors,... | |
 | 1854 - 688 páginas
...1,611 miles; from Cape Charles or Cape St. Lewis, Labrador, to ditto, the distance is 1,601 mile». out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too...shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires, but once laid, will remain for ever beyond the reach of vessels' anchors, icebergs, and drifts of any kind;... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1854 - 664 páginas
...and the bottom of the sea between the two places is a plateau, which seems to have been placed there especially for the purpose of holding the 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 - 670 páginas
...and the bottom of the sea between the two places is a plateau, which seems to have been placed there especially for the purpose of holding the wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them * From Cape Freeli, Newfoundland, to Erris Head, Ireland, the distance is 1,611 milei; from Cape t'hailn... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1855 - 302 páginas
...of Ireland, the bottom consists of a plateau, which, as he says, " seems to have been placed there especially for the purpose of holding the wires of...deep, that the wires but once landed, will remain for ever beyond the reach of vessels, anchors, icebergs, and drifts of any kind ; and so shallow that... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 páginas
...bottom of the sea between Ireland and Newfoundland 'is a plateau, which seems to have been placed there especially for the purpose of holding the wires of...nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires, when once laid, will remain for ever beyond the reach of vessels' anchors, icebergs, and drifts of... | |
 | Charles Frederick Briggs, Augustus Maverick - 1858 - 452 páginas
...and the bottom of the sea between the two places is a plateau, which seems to have been placed there especially for the purpose of holding the wires of...so deep that the wires but once landed, will remain for ever beyond the reach of vessels' anchors, icebergs, and drifts of any kind, and so shallow that... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1859 - 428 páginas
...and the bottom of the sea between the two places is a plateau, which seems to have been placed there especially for the purpose of holding the wires of...nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires, being once landed, will remain for ever beyond the reach of vessels' anchors, icebergs, and drift of... | |
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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 the purpose of holding the wires of a Submarine... 
