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Societe Fran^aise Des Telegraphes Sous-Mariiis, total, 3,754 (since in- 
creased to 4,544) : Porto-Plata, Santo Domingo, to Fort de France, Mar- 
tinique, 787 ; Fort de France to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, 777 ; Ca}-enne 
to Yizeu, Brazil, 002; Santo Domingo to Curac;ao, 453. 
Western and Brazilian Telegraph Company, total, 3,904 (since increased 
to 0,144): Maranham to Ceara, Brazil, 400; Ceara to Pernambuco, 470; 
Bahia to Rio de Janeiro, 837. 
^lexical! Telegraph Company, total, 1,523: Galveston, Texas, to Tam- 
pico, IMexico, 490 ; Galveston to Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, 822. 
Central and South American Telegraph Company, total, 7,497 : Salina 
Cruz, IMexico, to Libertad, Salvador, 434; San Juan del Sur to Panama, 
721 ; Buenaventura to St. Elena, Ecuador, 480; Paita to Callao-Lima, Peru, 
553 ; Callao-Lima to Icpiique, Chile, 747 ; Iquique to Valparaiso, Chile, 
877. 
AVest Coast of America Telegraph Compan}^ total, 1,099 (since increased 
to 1,904) : Callao-Lima to Mollendo, Peru, 510. 
NOTE ON COMPILATtON OF CHAET. 
This chart (see frontispiece) was comjiiled in the U. S. Hydrographic 
OtHce from the latest information, and is a facsimile of H. 0. chart* No. 
1530, just issued by that Office. 
Tlie twelve cables across tlie North Atlantic ocean were plotted, from 
their terminal points on the American continent to meridian 40° west, from 
positions furnished by the re.spective cable companies, with the excejition 
of three — the Western Union of 1881 and 1882 and the Mackay-Bennett 
of 1894— for which positions were furnished all the way across. From 
the European terminal points to meridian 40° west, the cables, with the 
exceptions just mentioned, were plotted from information deposited in 
the Office of Naval Intelligence. 
A map furnished by tlie Western Union Telegrajib Comjiany was used 
for the jilottingof the princijial connecting land lines in the United States. 
The cables and land lines of Japan were taken chictly from the Outline 
Map of Japan showing the princijial Post, Telegrajih, and Railway Routes, 
jiublished by the Japanese Dejiartment of Communications in 1888, and 
which accomjianies “A concise Dictionary of the jirincijial Roads and 
Chief Towns and Villages of Jajian,” by W. N. Whitnej’, AI. D., formerly 
Interjireter at the I". S. Legation at Tokyo. 
The other cables and land lines of the World were taken cbielly from 
the “Carte des Communications Tf-legraphiiiues du Regime Extra-Euro- 
jieen dressee d’ajires des documents olliciels jiar Le Bureau International 
des Administrations Telegraphiijues,” Berne, 1888. 
The Coaling, Docking, and Rejiairing Stations of the World and their 
different grades of facilities were compiled mainly from a |)ublieation of 
the Office of .Naval Intelligence, entitled “Coaling, Docking, and Ihqiair- 
ing Facilities of the INirts of the World,” 18!)2, ami corrections thereto uj> 
to December, 1895, and from the British Dock book of 18tl4. 
*Tliis chart io sold hy the Hydro^niphic Ollicp and its agents at .'lo conls per copy. 
