42 THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. now rapidly assuming a form and proportion commensurate with the grandeur of the enterprise. The Route.—Preliminarily proposed for this project is as follows: — First from the North of Scotland to the Bay of Thorshaven, Stromoe Isle, of the Faroe Isles. The length of the cable for this section will be about 250 miles. The next section will run from Westermanshaven, of the same isle, to about Port- land, South Iceland, a distance of about 350 miles. From this landing the line will be constructed across Iceland to Reijkiavik. From the Bay of Reikiavik the next section of cable will be run to some bay on the east coast of Greenland, south of latitude 61 deg. north. This distance will be about 550 or 600 miles. It is proposed to run the line across the southern end of Greenland. The fourth section of cable will be run from one of the bays of the west coast, south of the latitude 61 deg. north, to Hamilton Inlet, on the Labrador coast, a distance of about 600 miles. The aggregate submarine telegraph will be about 1750 miles;* land lines about 300 miles—total some 2050; about the same length as the Atlantic cable from Ireland to Newfoundland. The Danish Concession.—The Concession for this Telegraph has been granted by his Majesty the King of Denmark, so far as it may occupy Danish territory. There is no monopoly of the line reserved to the Danish Government, but its impartial use is guaranteed to the whole world. The Government has pledged itself to “ bestow all necessary care, vigilance, and means which may be within its command to insure the free, impartial, and unhindered use of the said Telegraph line.” If, however, the British Government should desire a wire, for the transmission of its own dispatches, a franchise can be given to it, and the use of that franchise will be defended by the Danish Government “with all the means within its command.” Telegraphic Manipulation.—There is no submarine tele- graph line, with an electrical circuit of 1000 miles, nor have we any practical evidence that a circuit of that length can be worked for commercial purposes. It might be possible to organise a cable to work with some facility on a submarine circuit of that length, but to what extent would be its commerciality remains an unsolved problem. The longest sub-aqueous circuit now operated is about 750 miles, and the speed of transmission therein is some seven words per minute. On an air line of that length the transmission * Subsequent surveys make the aggregate submarine sections about 1645 miles.

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