58 TlMEHRI. 
of following the coast plan to Pernambuco, I would 
suggest the laying of a dire£t cable between Demerara 
and Cape de Verdes, thereby avoiding the delay and cost 
of sending telegrams over the Brazilian lines, before 
being fairly started across the Atlantic. The distance 
it will be observed between Cape de Verdes and George- 
town is not much greater than from Cape de Verdes to 
Pernambuco, which is recorded as 1844 knots. It may 
therefore be taken roughly as 2,000 knots from Cape de 
Verdes to British Guiana. Now, if a cable were laid 
between the points named, Demerara would be placed 
by that single connection, within easy telegraphic reach 
of Spain, France, Great Britain, &c. ; and through these 
countries, to all parts of the world. Besides, there would 
be, through Cape de Verdes, almost direft, communication 
with Pernambuco (but one transmission at Cape de Verdes) 
for the Brazils, River Plate, Chili, Ecuador, and Panama, 
into Mexico ; and even finding in that way a new route into 
the United States itself. Panama would also by this route 
give a new outlet to messages for Jamaica, &c. ; and 
should the proposed new French cable be laid from 
Cayenne to San Domingo and Jamaica, messages could 
then be conve)ed to the French Guiana, which now 
appears quite cut off. Further, Para and Venezuela 
would also be opened up to Demerarians at a cost very 
trifling to that now charged, as a message has to traverse 
the route outlined above to reach Great Britain, and 
then to pass over the cables to Cape de Verdes and 
Pernambuco, before reaching its own lines proper. 
From an ele6lrical and engineering point of view the 
proposed single cable between Georgetown and St. Vincent, 
Cape de Verdes, would at least be equal to the single one 
