The cable of 1881 is 2,531 and
that of 1882 is 2,576 miles in length. Two cables were laid November,
1889, between Canso and New York (14).
The Compagnie Francaise du Telegraphe de Paris a New York has a cable
from Brest to St. Pierre Miquelon of 2,242 miles in length (5), from
thence a cable is laid to Louisbourg, Cape Breton (12), and another
to Cape Cod (13). It has also a cable from Brest to Porcella Cove,
Cornwall (11).
Those ten cables owned by the six companies named, of the total milage
of 22,959, not counting connections, represent the entire direct
communication between the continents of Europe and North America.
A new company, not included in the preceding statistics, proposes to
lay a cable from Westport, Ireland, to some point in the Straits of
Belle Isle on the Labrador coast (Map A32, Map B20).
The station of the Eastern Telegraph Company is at Porthcurno Cove,
Penzance, from whence it has two cables to Lisbon, one laid in 1880,
850 miles long, the other laid in 1887, 892 miles long (12), and one
cable to Vigo, Spain, laid in 1873, 622 miles long (13). From Lisbon
the cable is continued to Gibraltar and the East, whither we need not
follow it, our intention being to confine ourselves entirely to a
brief account of those cables communicating directly with Europe and
America. As already stated, this company has altogether seventy
cables, of a total length of nearly 22,000 miles.
The Direct Spanish Telegraph Company has a cable, laid in 1884, from
Kennach Cove, Cornwall, to Bilbao, Spain, 486 miles in length (14).
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