THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. 17 cliffs at its southern extremity; and several other places, where the rocks are nearly perpendicular, and frequented by the birds in the breeding season.” Further on he goes on to say, “The icebergs, therefore, which are formed in the fiords of S.W. Green- land do not ground, except in the shallower parts of the fiords ; and in the deeper parts there is no possibility of icebergs grounding in the depth of water, in which the cable would be laid.” Then again, in regard to certain suggestions as to masses of stone likely to be liberated on the dissolution of icebergs :—“ In the first place,” he says, “not one berg in a thousand is seen to contain boulders; in the second place, the temperature of the water is so near the freezing point, that but little of the bergs are melted on their passage round South Greenland; and, in the third place, should such a thing occur, and a large boulder sink and fall upon the wire, I do not imagine that it would produce the least ill effect, since its specific gravity is but about 2-5, &c.” As to the acces- sibility of the coast in respect to the ice, he adds: “ The middle of September, when the ice gradually diminishes, until in the month of October the sea becomes free from ice, so much so, that but one or two straggling bergs can be seen from the highest mountains, &c.. . . It is, however, unnecessary to fear any im- pediments as regards the ice to laying the cable; for the reason that the cable would not be laid to Greenland; but, on the contrary, would be taken from thence to Iceland, round Cape Farewell on the one side, and to Labrador on the other.” “ I admit,” he says, further on, “ that vast quantities of ice are to be met with on the coast of Greenland; but there is also a time when the sea is perfectly free from ice. I admit that icebergs draw much water, but I know that

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