INDEX TO ILLUSTBATIONS, 



XIX. 



MiEROE. — Continued. 



Rymer- Jones' Mirror Tube 

 Speaking Connections with Mirror 

 Speaking Mirror ... 

 Water Tube for Dead-beat Suspension 



Operations on board a Cable Ship. 

 Bight Buoyed, Ship Cutting 

 Cable Hooked on Shackle of Grapnel . . . 

 Cable Ship preparing to Buoy Cable ... 

 Clearing Final Splice over Bows 

 Coiling in Tank on the " Great Eastern " 

 Grappling on board the " Electra " ... 

 Growths found on Embedded Cable ... 

 Landing Shore-end from Cable Ship ... 

 Landing Shore-end from Lighter 

 Landing Shore-end in 1853 

 Laying Shore-end from Lighter without Cutting 

 Manner of Buoying Cable 

 Manner of Slipping Buoy 

 Preparing to Pay Out from Bows 

 Raising Cable in 800 Fathoms ... 

 Recovering Buoyed End and Slacking Payed- out 



Cable 



Shipping Cable from Factory ... 



Slipping Bight 



Slipping Final Splice 



Slipping Splice to Pay Out from Stern 



Stoppering Cable at Bows 



The old "Monarch" laying Cable in 1853 .. 



The " William Hutt " laying Cable in 1853 .. 



Under-running Cable 



Unmooring Buoy at Sea... 



PiCKING-UP AND PaYING-OTJT GeAR. 



Brake on Paying- out Drum 



Drum Revolution Counter 



Earliest Picking-up Machine 



Earliest Single-drum Picking-up Gear... 



Gear on Forward Deck of the " Faraday " 



Gear on the " Store Nordiske " 



Gear on board the "John Pender" ... 



Paying-out Gear on Cable Ship " Dacia " 



Paying- out Gear on Lighter 



Picking-up Gear on Cable Ship " Dacia " 



Preparing to Pay-out from Bows 



Wilson and Tate's Double Gear 



FIG. page 



96a 188 



93 184 



94 186 



97 189 



122 211 



123 212 



131 224 



189 313 



55 118 



121 210 



136 234 



60 127 



57 122 



63 113 



59 126 



132 226 



133 227 



170 288 



127 218 



185 307 



54 116 



169 287 



188 312 



168 285 



128 219 



196 333 



199 344 



211 359 



182 304 



179 297 



134 228 



143 248 



144-145 249 



70 148 



146, 147 250, 251 

 150, 151 256, 257 



64 134 



56 120 



140 242 



170 288 



148,149 254 



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