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BANQUET TO THE FOX EXPEDITION. 73 self-denial he manifested in early days, when he found a couch in a railway carriage, after labouring day by day in bringing his invention into actual use; nor with Sir C. Bright, in the risks he ran when the Agamemnon, freighted with the Atlantic Cable, was well nigh lost beneath the billows of the Atlantic. My labours have been of a less exciting character. I have listened, sir, with great interest to the remarks that have been made by the eminent men who are in this room to-night touching the North Atlantic route. They are encouraging in the highest degree. We have heard from men who are well qualified to form an opinion, whose opinion is of the highest value, that the sea risks in the proposed route are only of the average character; they are not such as to fill the promoters of the undertaking with dread. I gather from the remarks that have reached me that ice and icebergs are little to be feared. The landing places require to be well selected. Our brave pioneer, Capt. Allen Young, is about to leave us to carry out the necessary survey, and to make his selections; and we have the fullest confidence in his discernment, and feel sure that he will bring back a full and faithful report. Should his surveys be satisfactory, and the cables be safely made and laid, no fears need be entertained as to their working well and profitably (hear, and cheers). I am one of the fortunate few who had the two ends of the Atlantic Cable, 2600 miles in length, before me in the same room, and became tolerably familiar with the behaviour of electric currents when presented to such a conductor (hear, hear). You will have no such conductor as that. Your route is broken up into sections, the longest of which may be called short when com- pared with the length I have named. I will not at this late hour venture to explain the general behaviour of electricity in cables. There are certain specialties that become very conspicuous in extreme lengths but which are so modified in such short lengths, as those with which you have to deal, that they cease to be a source of anxiety. I have heard that it is proposed to lay a duplicate cable in each of the 600 mile lengths. This is an admirable pro- position. Should any mischance occur to one cable, the communi- cation would not be cut off, and should both remain good, the advantage of a double line on the long lengths would be gained. This would be beneficial every way, and might occasionally serve a good turn in facilitating transmission and preventing delays in the extreme cases of magnetic storm. The advantages of the breaks and subdivisions in the route in the event of a cable failing are obvious : a portion, and not the whole, of the property is at stake. The electrical advantages are also great, for the reason I have already given, and for the facility afforded of working, transmitting, or relay stations, as circumstances may require. If all goes well,
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The North Atlantic telegraph via the Færöe Isles, Iceland, and Greenland

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1861
Tungumál
Enska
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86


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