6 THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. communication across the Channel, longer lines followed in rapid succession; and in a few years cables were successfully laid down from Great Britain to Ireland, Belgium, Holland, Hanover, Den- mark, and the Channel Islands, each of which has done its part in conveying telegrams to and from this Island. The idea of placing the Eastern and Western Continents in telegraphic communication with each other naturally arose out of these early successes; and in 1854 not only was the present route selected, but application was made to his Majesty the King of Denmark for the necessary permission to land on his territories ; and a concession was obtained, bearing date August 16th of that year, which grants the exclusive privilege of using the Danish possessions of Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands, for a term of one hundred years. The advantages of the subdivision of the one great length into four sections were strongly urged by the promoters; but the proposition of direct communication between Newfoundland and Ireland was soon after brought before the com- mercial community so prominently, that in 1856 an influential association was formed for carrying out the direct Atlantic Line; and, in the summer of 1858, the cable was laid between Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, and the south-west coast of Ireland. It soon became evident that this cable could not effect com- mercial telegraphy. Every effort to employ it was made, but in vain : its condition was hopeless, and to the regret of every one at the sad necessity it was eventually abandoned to its fate. THE NORTH-ABOUT ENTERPRISE. The time had now arrived when the original proposition of the North-about route, with all its peculiar claims, might hope to gain

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