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The cables must be landed in barges or shallow boats that 
can go up to the beach. Boats of little draught can land the 
cable at high water, and it will be left by the receding tide. 
Sometimes barges must be used, but in nearly all cases the 
workmen have to wade through the water in actually landing 
the cable. This operation is represented in fig. 106, but the 
details, of course, vary according to circumstances. 
Thick shore cables are often laid by a ship built for the pur- 
Fig. 108. 
pose, especially where the distance between high and low water 
is large, as was the case with the Atlantic cable. The steamer 
Caroline laid the shore cable in 1865 and the William Cory did 
the same for the shore cable of 1866 : in both cases the cable 
was brought to the shore first by long boats, then by smaller 
boats, and finally by hand (figs. 107 and 108). 
This is the method most frequently used by the Telegraph 
Construction and Maintenance Company . Other plans are also 
used, such as the following, adopted by the India-rubler , 
