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THE DEEP-SEA SURVEYS. 27 If, during the coming summer a final selection and survey of a landing place in Greenland he made, all that will remain to complete the entire route will be a landing position in Labrador; and that a cable can be safety landed upon some part of this coast, if not in Hamilton Inlet, it is hardly possible to doubt. Judging then from my own experience, and from the facts which the voyage of the “ Bulldog ” has brought to light,—many of which are supported by the most reliable local authorities,—I am of opinion that with regard to the practicability of laying a North Atlantic cable, there are no grounds for serious mis- givings ; on the contrary, nearly all the information which has so far been ascertained is of a kind favourable to the accom- plishment of the undertaking. That there is usually impenetrable ice upon the south-west coast of Greenland for eight months out of the twelve,—(i.e. from January until September,)—we are well aware; and hence origi- nates the chief difficulty of the route. It is obvious that the Greenland cables cannot possibly be laid down whilst this ice remains upon the coast; but in ordinary seasons it does not clear away until Autumn is far advanced, and stormy weather becomes frequent. This difficulty, I apprehend, however, is not an insuperable or extraordinary one, since it is common to all similar operations at sea, requiring for their accomplishment a like period of four or five consecutive days. I have assumed that the ice ceases to obstruct the south-west shore of Greenland about the middle of September ; but we can no more predict its movements, than we can foretel the temper- atures of the seasons, and the winds by which those movements are governed. Exceptional seasons occur when it would be imprudent to attempt laying a Greenland cable : also rare seasons when it could be laid as early as July: again, there are seasons when
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The North Atlantic telegraph via the Færöe Isles, Iceland, and Greenland

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Year
1861
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English
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104


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