The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-09-01

shrss 70 seven hundred nlss cf wire 10 relay has As
ss.sssss.ss q beng very oi.cSaGss &C q I
stations, thus making expensive to operate.
one word to IL pracscssiiy ifear TIA; snsre Ars
owe, She ssas. ana on the stands where the most |
Of the route would Extend ! vi, ssme so"s a
them On the Labrador AND sfsss'ai iormss that
make ruch q show and give ns suoo co0
beezes year or two on and 81 sne western Ausn
ccas The "a cAbeTgs far South (someitmoe ~ low
ss hs LATITUDE Of New Ycr and the fading of
lutte proves exsieuce Of very powerful curre0s from
these roE and ice boupd coasts and the srosg ourea
would there not be mudfled dangers 70 slender wire
on the ocesn bed must leave the Labrador claat ct
tsch 70 toe Greenland shore, leave agen aud crossing
the land saitsfrorn four 70 elk hundred miles
attach 10 the coast OF Iceland. wire extending from
reensud 10 Iceland has OF points OF direction
and attachment II must take the shortess cut TO the
soothwe cornsr Ct Iceland and be- landed Cape Rel
IoTth, enter Toe deep bay tBredsford thnf) srd be
landed a. Reikavik the capital Of the counrg, where
city, with scientific men, ana : G,yernor an
government officers to project Il, and keep II
the slsnd, distance OF from thirty i've to sixty
mes arc leave The south coast st Krsuvik Vogsosar
AID heIcs away 70 Fsrro. Il the wire was landed =!
the point rat named Cape being the shortest
stretch from Greeenisrd, It would pass close ny Two
bold rock uiands, the 3eaisaek (Meesakkea lnsh),
sre the adler Between these (63th uonhabted and
the sbore, sonc ten miles il remember rightly be-
heye the dstsnce is given ID the narrative of my visit In
1852 which have by me) there q most powerful
captain WIS commanded the Danish schooner that WAS
Of not lees than eight or ten miles al hour Cape
Resenets Is low, bleak and uLinhabed ne twenty or
thirty mica more from the first village Keyiavk and
ly sixty frora Rekj avk. The favorable route
! believe, would be miles 90 the north Of tbs
Mealslck and Ggenadier island, aad intn the deep,
quiet aod locked hay soyessd, with tie Esja1 1nn
tie forth eide and The fertile coc.ry (ccmpara-
yeIy) around Reis isylk the soulh 10 this bay tue
Icescers have both pleasure and proht pursuing the
while was there but these avocsors AGA the gambos
of the monsters would not, probably ois.uro sub
marine wire. By this iorger route from Greenland the
eectlcisu would have a su5carire wire hundred
miles gre In length but the capitalist would have hs
line in place less iaoie 10 be torn moved from i'e
bed by powerful current cart OF the NeAsack, and
less babe TO Interruption fron raovirg or stranded
iceberg. You viii bear il mind ttat tor ice and cold
weather Greenland in elect twenty thirty degrees OF
latitude worse (colcer) than Iceland II electric com
pAIy can opce get their wire safely aad securely laid
from our shores TO Rstayk, the dicu ara dangerous
~ undertake 10 Jay telegraph cable from Ice.
land 70 Abereeen as over any other equal
distance OF island checsered OF course, weult
have 20 be taken to guard against narrow where
,hero might be strong currents among the Zero aud
She and slsl6s. would rot stop Of all a. tho Orkney
group bet the cable dirsct from the CAIN, beautiful
bay OF Lsrwick--the scspital" OF snetsni-to some
iase rear John oGYcs.s House .r farther south to
Pe,eshead Aberdeen. Al f,s thought should be in.
clrec say P.terhead. The dstapce from Ier Sick I,
this village Cannot be three hundred miles, any
not much over that, II 1t 10 AZ much
There Is another difficulty Of political nature attending
this route II would begin and end on British soil, the
the preeert dces ard M this end Newfound
apd Nova scotia New Brunswick and Maine have granted
exclusive 20 the company headed By Cooper and
Field these hints, however Of any value TO Mr.
Shaiifer Others they certainly quite welcome 10
sbem They will fro large elaborate beautiful and &C
curae map Of Iceland and n shOrts Win every noun
TAIN bay point, and headiand along with every wis
bge and every single house in the ard laid dosn VITA
great nuicr cs-sad map beIg 10 The Smithsonian Inft
tu'cn II waz q present from the Na'ioua Library OF
Iceland at Ressvk to the people Of the ni,ed sstes
Iu my opinion a moro feasible, and natonaliy far
better route for second telesraph cable win b. from Gal
way 10 Cape Ced Just look 81 these ronss They
abor. 2sc0 or $500 niles apart Now /, you can send
Ineligible, talking stresm Of electricity Through 800
miles Of ssbmerged wire, yeu csn through 800 miles,
and tat be accurately tested b; joining Tor expert
neLt vea vines that 20 70 make up several routes
say all Tie way from Portland Asne by Trniy Bay, to
yaieuis Tue wire from Galway could lay along Manrys
telegraph plateau, The taue a. the present DOS ill
cane lear 70 lie coast Of Newfoundland. and then
come away south. II has all been examined snd sounded;
has not, can De, and land a Cape Cod. one end
Of such cable won be on own Shores AMI single
wire could DO laid from The landing place to Nov York
sify another Z, Boston; eld commu7icat,n would be
quicker to the Old Woilt aud be less expensive in in
ttrumeLts, working and stations than by the present
route thousand miles By land to Trinity Bay, aud
toen scrcts the Tue other eud OF such cable
tabsRts city rapidly ris.rE 10 great commercial
In Ioisnce through the activity and business OF
ctssiul lire OF Transatlantic steamers. you have
seen and copied letter from Mr. John orrel Lever the
prceo,cr and principal cwner OF hese seanersthe Gal
erc, n Essspd s1irs !. take sso seo ado
print $50 CCo-scck, aud employ his steamships
laying Gown second wire srt N Galway TO the shores of
America This psn, have doubt OF Mr.. Levers sbili
~ 10 carry oui company were formed and the work
fairy considered felegraphs, IN this fast age
too important and Of too great utility u ile masses TO be
mcnopolzed by few companies. or By one or two ma
Sess let Mr.. shsnasr cry o,ssr company lay down
lice wherever 1t IN feAsble but lee have al
less one line resting on our soil, In Yankee land.
Ihcpe the circatous route by way Of Labrador Green
and, Icespd Ferro Shetland Orkney and ScOtaud may
be found practicable though the prospect looks 10 cool
and dubious but an satisned can have very direct
route, where cave successful Line OF steamers
namely, from Galway 20 New York. PiLSY MILEi
NV YORK, August 81, 1858