THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. Extracts from an examination of Colonel Tal. P. Shaffner, of the United States, before the Committee instituted by the Board of Trade, on Electric Telegraphy.—London, March 14th, 1860. Present, Capt. Douglas Galton, Chairman; Prop. Wheatstone, Capt. Washington, R. N., Rear-Admiral Fitzroy, R. N., Rt. Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, Lionel Gisborne, Esq., C.E., and Thos. Page, Esq., C.E. LABRADOR AND NEWFOUNDLAND COASTS AND ICEBERGS. 3914. Question by the Chairman: Do you anticipate any physical difficulties in landing the cable in Hamilton Inlet, and maintaining it ?—Answer by Colonel Shaffner: Nothing more than is common to other parts of the ocean coast. 3915. What is the form of the entrance to that inlet ? Is it pro- tected on each side by ridges or rocks, or would icebergs be liable to ground in the centre of it ?—I stopped some time at Hamilton Inlet, in the month of September. I examined the various bays and the coast, and penetrated into the interior, to study the character of the country and the people. The bottom of the bay is mostly a shelly formation, or shelly sand. I presume it is barnacle sand; it is a very white sand, and the mouth of the bay is very deep, running into the sea some 60 or 70 miles; it gets deeper and deeper; the width of that immense trench or trenches that enters the ocean I do not know, but the depth of it is over 350 fathoms some twenty miles from the coast. The mouth of the inlet or bay is about 30 miles wide. 3916. When you say that it is a trench, you mean that it is shallower on each side for a certain distance?—Yes; above that trench there is a shelf of rocks projecting from the coast, probably about 25 miles to sea.

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