6 THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH—EXPLANATORY. subject in bis Glasgow speech—fully convinced that an electric telegraph could be successfully laid and maintained between Europe and America by way of the Earoe Isles, Iceland, and Greenland, and he gave very satisfactory reasons in substantiation of his opinion. Besides the results of the Wyman’s surveys, there will be found in this pamphlet an interesting letter from Captain Osborn, R.N.; an account of the deputation to Lord Palmerston, the banquet at Southampton, and the Queen’s visit to the “ Eox,” prior to the sailing of that vessel on the Telegraph Expedition of 1860. The various documents published in this pamphlet—although they have emanated from different persons, and given at different times and places—singularly harmonise, one with the other, in favour of the practicability of the proposed North Atlantic Telegraph. After the arrival of the Telegraph Expedition of 1859 at Glasgow, Col. Shaffner proceeded to Copenhagen, to adjust some clauses of his Concession, and to obtain some changes of the route specified therein. In order to facilitate the enterprise, the government accorded the changes; and, to avoid complications, it became necessary for Col. Shaffner to sacrifice his expenditures of some 21,000/. which he had incurred under the Concession as the equivalent of caution-money; and he stipulated to deposit with the government, within ninety days, 100,000 dols. Danish, in substitution and in the form of a new guaranty. He applied to Mr. Joseph Rodney Croskey, of London, to aid the enterprise, and that gentleman not only paid the above sum to the govern- ment, but has advanced all the money for the purchase of the steamer “ Eox,” the fitting-out of the Expedition of 1860, and for all other expenditures that have been made, and, besides, he has given to the undertaking a vast amount of well-directed energy.

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