24 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERT. 



cable of last year, so tliat in jjrapplinp: for its recovery, there 

 ■W'ouUl be no (lani^cr of i)ickiiif; up tlu^ new one. 



One of the the most n'niarUablc cironmstances connectofl with 

 the layinoj of tlie oable of IHllG is the directness of the route taken 

 by the Great Ivistcrn, and the small percentage of slack of the 

 cal)lt> })ai(l out, compart'd with the distance run. 



The log of the steanu-r shows: 



Saturday, \Wi. — Distance run, 108 miles; cable paid out, 116 

 miles. 



Sunday, loth. — Distance run, 128 miles; cable paid out, 139 

 miles. 



Monday, IGih. — Distance run, 115 miles; cable paid out, 137 

 miles. 



Tuesday, 17 th. — Distance run, 118 miles; cable paid out, 139 

 miles. 



Wednesday, 18th. — Distance run, 105 miles ; cable jjaid out, 125 

 miles. 



Thursday, 19th. — Distance run, 122 miles; cable paid out, 129 

 miles. 



Friday, 20th. — Distance inin, 117 miles; cable paid out, 127 

 miles. 



Saturday 21st. — Distance run, 122 miles; cable paid out, 136 

 miles. 



Sunday, 22d. — Distance run, 123 miles; cable paid out, 133 

 miles. 



Monday, 23d. — Distance run, 121 miles; cable paid out, 138 

 miles. 



Tuesday, 2ith. — Distance run, 121 miles; cable paid out, 135 

 miles. 



Wednesday, 2bth. — Distance run, 112 miles; cable paid out, 130 

 miles. 



Thursday, 2Uh. — Distance run, 128 miles ; cable paid out, 134 

 miles. 



Friday, 21th. — Distance run, 112 miles; cable paid out, 118 

 miles; which, with shore end off Valentia, distance 27 miles, 

 cable paid out 29 miles, makes distance run 1,6G9 miles, and paid 

 out, 1,H64 miles. 



On the 29th of July, the New Yoi-k papers were supplied with 

 the news from Central Europe only 30 hours old. 



One of the most remarkalile feats of engineering of any age 

 was the picking up of tlie cal)le of 1865, lost at sea, August 2d ; at 

 the time of parting, 1,213 miles of cable had been j)aid out, and 

 all attempts to regain it had Ijeen useless on account of the ineffi- ■ 

 cacy of the apparatus used. Having laid the new cable, the " Great 

 Eastern " sailed Aug. 9th, to pick u}) the old. The dragging for the 

 cable commenced Aug. 12th, resulting in bringing it to the sur- 

 face on the 17th ; it slipped from its fastenings and sunk, four 

 times ; but on the fifth trial, after casting the grapnel 30 times, a 

 permanent union was made with the coil on board the '• Great East- 

 ern," on September 2d. It was found uninjured and in perfect 

 working order. The grappling ropes were 20 miles long, seven 

 and a half inches in circumference, of the same strands of the 



