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PICTORIAL MISCELLANY. 





The large cut will show you, at a 

 glance, all the various parts of the tele- 

 graph together. The left hand part of 

 the cut is supposed to be the office in 

 Boston, with the battery and signal key ; 

 and the ri^ht hand side the office in New 

 York, together with the recording appa- 

 ratus. The distance between them is 

 supposed to be two hundred and thirty 

 miles. I cannot represent this great 

 space upon one page, so you must imag- 

 ine it. When it can be done, these wires 

 are extended along upon the side of 

 some rail-road, a representation of which 

 you will see upon the cut. 



Now observe, that it wants only the 

 small place on the signal key to be united 

 in order to complete this great circuit. 

 I press down the knob and instantly the 



