The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-06-20

20 open the sea- and the anchorage bad that
the worst places nch vessel could select In storm
VaeutA Bay u protected ana although not safe
miles INTO the interior is very rocky ana barren and az
fords pasturage for the dminutve but hardy
Of cattle for which The county Kerry famous me huss
the poverty Of the lower classes OF the people, aud how
msersby their labor is rewarded The ruins Of churches,
fourth nth century strikpgiy In accordance with
the impoverished OF the land and Of the people,
in Ireland and hundreds died OF starvation on the road
side or in the miserable dwengs, OF which still
MAN, and in which their bodies wore found many weeks
AFTER their death, unburcd and 10 horrible ssse Of
cison Within the last fow l. Us said the condition
Of tie people hAs considerably improved but what the
writer saw on his Wait there last year called inprove
msnt they have terrible state before the
present amehoration commenced. Some OF them 1--we at
present Sy fishing SOME ey % h h sns.asI
shilling sterling, OF twenty dive eenss day
About three miles ou the head OF vAlsntia Bay is the
poet town OF CAhrcveen and al the distance but In
another direction lies Knghssso 40, small village Of
Eve hundred inhabitants. rhis visge called after tho
strongest advocates Atlantic Telegraph The small
land in which the bay serm,ustes decided upon
as the pscs for the landing Of the cable and has
tra could be selec,sc About four hundred yards from
the beach telegraph building, similar to thu. =.
Trinity Bay Newfoundland has been erected aad supplied
with everything necessary for the business and accommo
caon OF the operators The junction with the cable will
Dublin. thence across the chaunel 70 Engand, and BY
CHER connections with the great net work Of teegraphs
which extends over the whole contncnt OF Europe and
which has already embraced within it portions OF Asia
and Africa
THK GsEAT TELEGRAPH PLArIAU OF THE ATLANTIC.
10 the Of this article reference has been made
the many things which appear to have conspred In favor
OF this the greatest enterprise undertaken by
The discovery of the value Of gua percha nsulaor
happened the most opportune moment and proved of
the moot vital Importance; and still later, At tmo when
the prospect OF an Atlantic telegraph not only dis
cuased but absolutely undertaken, great plateau,
twas asserted, extended along tue bed of the ocean,
exactly between the t~o points which proposed to
connect In both these instancethat is in the discovery
OF lh peculiar gu,.s perchs and the existence Of
this grand ocean levensure TO have given her
powerful ASSISTANCE towards the successful accomplish
meat Of The undertaking. While every other part
Inequalities, the abrupt ceclivtes
mountain heights this is like immense
prairie, stretching extent OF fourteen hundred
u.les west 10 east with average depth OF
teen hundred fsthcms asd ting twenty five
between the most advanced posts OF the Old ani Ne~
Worries, and AS approaches tie Ne xoundianc coast
north OF the Great Bank entirely free from the effects OF
icebeSse which sioued on toe shallow bottoms
cot only peculiarly adapted for the purpose but If il
were absolutely designed by Providence for the to
which IL Ia TO DO put.
enc existence lnis plateau had been believed in some
years before proved by actual test Sea captains
had sde frequent passages over this route came 10
the not that 10 the north sud south
OF a CONCLUSION whicn was based upon the indications
Ia the difference Of color the prominent theory IN
gard 10 the formation OF this ocean prairie based the
revolutions which sciontic say
bouiders whi:h are found on tae pmsiione
prares OF Iowa and Illinois are supposed to have
covered ,hoss vas. plains fhere are no rocks Of SIM
lar description, IL alleged than from five hundred
to thousand miles 70 the north OF them, and their
mark able appearance AZ this distance accounted foe
rather ingenious IL Is believed that they
vey cd south ward nom the Artic regions the
braces OF gigantic icebefgs, and tina, reaching
genial cimaae they ,t rally tnswsc dspoe
they BY the deposits OF these aod
ether materials is argued The prslr,es OF Illinois and
Iowa formed the OF nose
unknown sses winch parsed before tho earth consi
dsred By the Creator d. haoaon the last aud most
perfect 81 bis Creatures Now whether trus false the
theory 10 very plausible and should receive fair cons
aeraaon Here, hoSever, the theory does not resits
1t believed formed the bed OF the ocean were thus
buiI up, Why should the action Of similar pro
duce similar resul Here gigantic cebergs oa-
ing Down every year from the Of them carry
pg hne um mas rocka which they have torn from the
Arctic mounsns tner descent into the As these
ioeoefgs have cated ntoa mid latitude they have
gradually become wesker aud weaker, until, unabs any
carry their veghy burdens they have deposted
them la tue bed OF The ooean and thai parcaAr part
OF Is which has mapped 10 tae charts OF Lieut.
Beri nsu, of the Unted Navy and Captain Day
man, of IL NJ NAVY, "a tho hoe u the Telegraph pls
teau Although tber. proof either for or against
this state tnenf, an caDrot DC iong tbs oepths
q the sea r.u,sia uorsvealed 70 the eye OF man Il
is well asoertsired fact that large quantities OF
eafin and heavy nHgnegts az rock are Carried down
yearly cn the polar regions by the huge icebsrgs which
nd 10 such numbers as freqneIiy 10 render the
almost impossible IN some la'itudes The CUT
Stream h however, ssid 10 the great agent by which
tnis pseGu has been iorntd aad bet for the Atlantic
Telegraph Company would be under slight obligation
tnoee icesergs TOR the part they have per-
just in the rign, spot, ana wepdisg of in north.
essteriy direcuyo, just above the line Of the
plateau, carries an !; solid mater with which
they reghtsd ard winch scat,ers along ie route
THIS mater, combined with what held In solution by
Itself, forms in tue course Of thousands OF years
mrrse mass sufficient perhaps 20 make an saod larger
tnAD that Of Great Britain The telegraph pa.esu has
besB called PLATO but IL Is, more properly peakng
immense tsee ana Ike ssepPes Of the Andes rising
% from tue beo of Inc ocean 10 the south OF the AT
anr fur, i've an ak mules deep, wbie the plateau
Aiene is there any tang ike anorm level In addition
to the rocks which been deposited by the melting
melted cebergs there IT, ~ has been stated large guam
ay Of osnes matter, insisting Il We Meto Judge IRON toe
souncipss Of the OF the Uoed states and British
navy Jn named In great part OF exceedingly minute
aneils, minute, iadeed a. - be impercepable to the
bic .noiaton OF the absence Of currents at the bot,
tom Of this part OF the ocean. TINS belief Ia
further sustained By the fac. TIA, 10 the soaadlnss
would be- cUcd sud gnked lead, showing planly
that had reached the bottom alter tho lead hsd
team ~ere swept by curreru
the frst sonEdirgs winch made taken by
Lieut. serrymsn tho o. 1885, aud the second
and last in the FAN Of 1855 These very successa
establishing peyotd al ptradvcnure the exbtence Of the
paera 10 June and 10 last year, c,2sea psymse, o,
proposed Telegraph, and WITH tue satisfactory re-
suit some exceptions bad been tzkeu 10 -eg,ri "a tue
renabliy OF Lieut. Berry mans soanoings I'd; those Of
Cspt Day we're strongly corrooofsive OF
rectness masking allowance Tor the variations OF ocsy
In toe sounoipgs VI The two officers.
u must net be forgotten that the toundings a
Captain Dyman and Lieutenant Bergman
Of distances VI from Eve thirty miles assrt.
and were seldom II ever tAsen within a mile Of each
other Ia view OF this fac the reader will OF per.
oeiye Their remarkable coincidence. Captain Da,msn
states In mis- report that whatever there may
in the depths gwen by marked lines they side
OF excess. The reason for this s twofod the
ioss OF time land consequently loss Of line aiso) est
mating at great Depths By Intervals exact
when the sDkcr - descend secondly the loss
line which may be caused BY the devAions from per
peudruar Of certain portions OF in passa through
ter moved BY under currents" he Ia OF optnon tia,
soundangs In depths above 900 500 Ashoms
depeneed upon ~ strictly within treuty twenty Eve
fathoms except with very small and light lines. In re-
gard 70 the disputed exence OF under he relates
the following interesting incdenton tbs evening ottae