8 THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. to find that the more recent surveys most singularly confirm those made by him the year previous. Unaided by government or capital, he went to test the practicability of the route, by personally examining the lands and fathoming the seas; and at the end of the voyage he gave to the world an amount of information in regard to the physics and the geography of the regions traversed that will be difficult for more extended expeditions to excel. THE BULLDOG EXPEDITION. In May of last year (1860), an influential deputation waited upon Lord Palmerston, with the view of obtaining from Her Majesty’s Government the assistance of a vessel in order to make accurate soundings along the proposed line. The interview resulted in the Admiralty ordering the paddle steamer Bulldog to be commissioned for the purpose asked for, and Captain Sir Leopold M'Clintock was appointed to the command. The Bulldog was at once got ready for sea, and sailed from Spithead on the 24th of June, her mission being to survey the deep seas for the proposed telegraph. The Bulldog returned to this country on the 11th November, after having most successfully carried out the object of her mission,—the taking of the deep sea soundings for the cable. THE FOX EXPEDITION. The steam yacht Pox, which played her part so successfully in the celebrated Franklin expedition, having been purchased by the promoters of the North Atlantic Telegraph, for the purpose of surveying the coasts and determining the several points at which

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