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CHAPTER XII.
That with the improved telegraphic instruments for
long submarine lines, a speed of more than eight words per
minute can be obtained through such a cable as the present
Atlantic one between Ireland and Newfoundland, as the
amount of slack actually paid out did not exceed fourteen
per cent., which would have made the total cable laid
between Valentia and Heart's Content nineteen hundred
miles.
That the present Atlantic cable, though capable of
bearing a strain of seven tons, did not experience more
than fourteen hundred-weight in being paid out into the
deepest water of the Atlantic between Ireland and
Newfoundland.
That there is no difficulty in mooring buoys in the deep water of the Atlantic between Ireland and Newfoundland, and that two buoys even when moored by a piece of the Atlantic cable itself, which had been previously