EXHIBITED AT THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, PERTAINING TO THE NORTH
ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.
1. A LARGE SPHERICAL MAP, embracing the seas and lands to be
traversed by the proposed North Atlantic Telegraph; also of the
Continents of Europe and North America.
2. A MAP, showing the rivers, lakes, geysers, mountains, glaciers,
plains, farms, and towns of Iceland; also the track travelled
over by Dr. John Rae, Commander of the Land Expedition of the
North Atlantic Telegraph, and of the proposed route of the line
across Iceland.
3. A LARGE MAP OF THE FÆRÖE ISLES, and another of the Stromöe Isle,
showing the mountains, valleys, fiords, bays, and towns; and
the track travelled over by the Land Expedition, and the route
proposed for the Telegraph.
4. A MAP OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, with all the deep-sea soundings
taken by the British and American Governments north of the
Tropics, showing the superior favourable depths of the seas on
the North Atlantic Telegraph route.
5. A MAP OF GREENLAND, showing the mountains, islands, unexplored
regions, glaciers, and fiords, south of the Arctic Circle.
6. A LARGE MAP OF JULIANSHAAB DISTRICT, SOUTH GREENLAND, showing the
mountain ranges, groups of isles, the many long, deep, and wide
fiords in which the Telegraph Cables can be safely laid, and
beyond the reach of icebergs.
7. CHARTS of the various bays and fiords examined by Mr. Allen
Young, Commander of the “Fox” Expedition, and reported by him as
suitable and safe places for the landing of the cables on the
coasts of the Færöe Isles, Iceland, and Greenland.
8. MAPS, with the deep-sea soundings, taken by Sir Leopold
M‘Clintock, on the proposed North Atlantic Telegraph route, viâ
the Færöe Isles, Iceland, and Greenland; and with the soundings
taken by Commander Daymon on the route of the late Atlantic
Telegraph from Ireland to Newfoundland.
9. A DIAGRAM, showing the mode of telegraphic manipulation over air
lines, with the earth forming half of the circuit, connecting the
respective voltaic batteries.
10. A LARGE DIAGRAM, illustrating the mode of coupling together
two or more electric circuits by mechanical contrivances, so
as to overcome great distances by a combination of separate
and independent circuits, charged respectively by batteries;
precisely as can be practically applied and operated on the
proposed North Atlantic Telegraph.
11. MODEL STATIONS, with telegraphic apparatuses, representing
Europe, Færöe Isles, Iceland, Greenland and America; by which
dispatches were sent by the motion of the finger from Europe
to America, and simultaneously to the Færöe Isles, Iceland,
and Greenland, precisely as can be done on the proposed North
Atlantic Telegraph; so that dispatches need not be re-written at
the respective places, but sent instantaneously from Europe to
America, in the same manner as is daily done from London to St.
Petersburg, to Vienna, to Constantinople, and other places far
distant.
12. A CHART of the surveys of Hamilton’s Inlet and the sea adjacent
thereto, by Sir Leopold M‘Clintock’s expedition, showing that
the water is sufficiently deep to permit a heavy shore cable to
lie in safety.
13. ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS, illustrating the
people, houses, churches, farms, towns, bays, mountains, valleys,
water-falls, geysers, and various subjects of interest on the
route of the proposed telegraph at the Færöe Isles, Iceland, and
Greenland; taken by Mr. John E. Woods, of the “Fox” Expedition.
14. SPECIMENS of deep-sea soundings, taken on the route of the
proposed telegraph, exhibited through microscopes. [These
soundings have been examined by the philosopher Ehrenberg,
and they prove his theory of life at the bottom of the ocean;
and, also that the bottoms of the respective seas are highly
favourable for the proposed telegraph.]
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