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spare yet strong frame, as if liis daily food but served 

 for the development of schemes for tne benefit of 

 mankind in general and the profit of individuals in 

 particular, every stoppage in our progress being 

 marked by the issue of a fresh prospectus, each 

 showing an increase of dividend . as the certain 

 result of confiding speculation, and I say all hon- 

 our to him for his unswerving resolution to com- 

 plete that great work for the success of which he 

 has toiled so long and so earnestly. Then we have 

 Professor Thomson and Mr Yarley, two eminent 

 electricians sent out by the Atlantic Telegraph Com- 

 pany to draw up a report of the voyage, but who 

 have no authority to interfere in the management of 

 the expedition : most learned men are they ; so pre- 

 cise, that a difference in their respective calculations 

 of even a millionth part of a decimal involves a long 

 and animated yet perfectly amicable discussion. A 

 valuable man, too, is Captain Moriarty, K.X., whose 

 services cannot be too highly acknowledged, his skill 

 and precision in taking observations being of the 

 greatest benefit. Xo chance of escape has the coy 

 sun ; let him but peer forth an instant, and Moriarty's 

 keen and quick eye snatches the information required. 

 There are also in our saloon Messrs London, Temple, 

 and AVilloughby Smith, all connected with the expe- 

 dition; nor must I forget M. Despecher, a French 

 gentleman who has witnessed the laying of many a 

 marine telegraph cable a great t^iveller, and there- 



