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of the Eastern Company is at Porthcurno, Cornwall, 

 and througli it passes most of the messages for 

 Spain, Portugal, Egypt, India, China, Japan, and 

 Australia. 



three cables around our shores of a total length of 

 1489 miles. If we include India and the Colonies, 

 the British Empire owns altogether two hundred and 

 sixteen cables of a total length of 381 1 miles. 



Fig. 3. — Map showing Cables from Great Britain to America and ihe Continent. 1-18, private companies; 19-31, Government 



Cables ; 32, proposed Cable. 



The third largest cable company is the Anglo- 

 American Telegraph Company, with thirteen cables 

 of a total length of 10,196 miles. 



The British Government has one hundred and 



The longest Government cable in British waters, is 

 that from Sinclair Bay, Wick, to Sandwick Bay, 

 Shetland, of the length of 122 miles, and laid in 

 1885. The shortest being four cables across the 



