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34765	Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)	The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph			.txt	text/plain	110136	4714	71	rather the signal-tower from which the New World may speak to the Old. And yet, though large as England, and so near our coast, few Americans from New York on the eighteenth of July, 1856, and the very next day Mr. Field left on the Baltic for England, to organize the Atlantic Telegraph First, as to the possibility of laying a cable in the deep sea, Mr. Field had witnessed one attempt of the kind--that in the Gulf of St. Lawrence the year before--an attempt which had failed. Atlantic cable!" Little did he think that ten years after, that ship the New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Company to Ireland, by "The successful laying down of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable is new cable, thirty-nine miles of that lost the year before, which had the whole Atlantic cable on board the Great Eastern.	./cache/34765.txt	./txt/34765.txt