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TELEGEAPH, ELECTRIC. 



Important Submarine Wires, or Telegraph 

 Cables. The following is believed to be a 

 nearly complete list of the more important 

 submerged or cable lines which have been laid, 



and which, so far as known, are now in opera- 

 tion, or, as in case of one of them at least, sufter- 

 ing an interruption which is probably but tem- 

 porary. The total number here given is sixty-one. 



In the list given, it will be obvious, several 

 cables crossing wide rivers and other similar 

 bodies of water on the American continent, are 

 not included. A cable was laid along the coast 

 from La Calle in Algeria to Biserta, in 1865, 



but the statements met with throw doubt upon 

 its success. About September of the same 

 year, several cables were laid connecting French 

 islands of the ocean and the British Channel, 

 and comprised within the semaphore system 



