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bottom — is yet more complicated^ and will demand tbe powers 
of tbe highest mathematical mind^ united to mechanical in- 
genuity of no common order. 
Waiting with much interest for the result of the next experi- 
ment^ which is promised in the early summer of 1866 ^ we 
cannot but think — seeing the amount of capital which is at stake, 
and that a single accident risks the whole venture — that some 
mode of catching the cable in case of fracture is deserving the 
attention of all concerned. 
The task of placing an electrical cable between the British 
Islands and America has been proved to be possible. The 
difficulties of submerging such a cable are great, indeed. Yet 
it will as certainly be accomplished as the suspending of wires 
in the air between Liverpool and London has been accom- 
plished; and, within a short period, electricity wnll be buying 
and selling, and telling all the tales of human passions, at 
a rate of not less than eight words in each minute, through 
the nearly two thousand miles of ocean waters which separate 
the great Continents of the world. 
