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New Plan For An Atlantic Telegraph

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
November
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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gol Uj íl now pian 101 u. Lunígrapu euuiu, which a compuny proposu to lay, first, six hundred miles from London to Oporto, to try its working. If it works well, they will continua the lino to tbc Azores, nine lmndred miles; and theneo to Iiíilifax, fourteen huridied miles; roakíog iu all two thousund nina hundi-od miles. Allen's oable will weigh but oüc quarter as inaoh as tbat whioli the Qi'ent líastern recently ieft buoyed in tlie Atlantic ocean it muy be paid out more easily ; is less diffiuult to stow and handlo, and eusts so muoti lesa tliat tho Compuny who undertake to luy it have put their stock at LGUO,0O0 - the capital of' the old (Jompauy is uow L1,035,000, The diameter erf the. old Compauy's cable is one and one tonth inohüs ; Allou'a i oiily üve eightha of au inch. it 'm claimed, morcovcr, that the lalter will transmit iifty per cent, inore words than the lcrmer. It is loft for the Yankees to make an iinprovemeut on this, with an ofiieo in the Umted Siutes, insUau of the British l'roviuces. Tho HerahVs Bei I in letter says move mentw aro in procreas in Hamburg, Bremeo and Brelin to raise ÍUttda ia uid of the colored peonle of the Uiiited States It is thought a largo surn will ba raised ia Ucriuauji

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Michigan Argus