Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER LIII.--Second and Third Attempts to lay the Atlantic

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Cable--The Failure in the Month of June--Description of the Cable--The Voyage of the Niagara--The Continuity--All Right again--Change from one Coil to Another--The Knights of the Black Hand--Unfavorable Symptoms--The Insulation broken--The Third of August--An Anxious Moment--Land discovered--Trinity Bay--Mr. Field visits the Telegraph Station--The Operators taken by Surprise--Landing of the Cable--Impressive Ceremony--Captain Hudson returns Thanks to Heaven--The Voyage of the Agamemnon--The Queen's Message--The Sixteenth of August--Deep-Sea Telegraphing--The Equator and the Cable 576