on September 1, following.

During that period, ninety-seven messages had been sent from Valentia,
and two hundred and sixty-nine from Newfoundland. At the present time,
the ten Atlantic cables now convey about ten thousand messages daily
between the two continents. The losses attending the laying of the
1865 cable resulted in the financial ruin of the Atlantic company and
its amalgamation with the Anglo-American. In 1866 the Great Eastern
successfully laid the first cable for the new company, and with the
assistance of other vessels succeeded in picking up the broken end of
the 1865 cable and completing its connection with Newfoundland.

[Illustration: MAP SHOWING MAIN CABLES FROM EUROPE AND THEIR
CONNECTIONS WITH CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

Reference to places--A, Heart's Content; B, Placentia; C, St. Peter
Miquelon; D, North Sydney, Cape Breton Island; E, Louisbourg; F Canso,
Nova Scotia; G, Halifax; H, Bird Rock; I, Madeline Isles; J,
Anticosti; K, Charlotte Town, Prince Edward's Island; LLL, Banks of
Newfoundland.]

The three cables of this company presently in use and connecting
Valentia in Ireland with Heart's Content in Newfoundland, were laid in
1873, 1874, and 1880; and (1) are respectively 1886, 1846, and 1890
nautical miles in length. This company also owns the longest cable in
the world, that namely from Brest in France to St. Pierre Miquelon,
one of a small group of islands off the south coast of Newfoundland
and which, strange to say, still belongs to France (6).

The length of this cable is 2,685 nautical miles, or 3,092 statute
miles. It was laid in 1869. There are seven cables of a total length
of 1773 miles, connecting Heart's Content, Placentia Bay and St.
Pierre, with North Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Duxbury, near Boston,
belonging to the American company. Communication is maintained with
Germany and the rest of the Continent by means of a cable from
Valentia to Emden 846 miles long (7); and a cable from Brest to
Salcombe, Devon, connects the St. Pierre and Brest cable with the
London office of the company (10).[1]

[Footnote 1: Cables not fully described in the text, Map B. Eight
cables at the Anglo-American Company: 7, Heart's Content to Placentia,
two cables; 8, Placentia to St. Pierre; 9, St. Pierre to North Sydney;
10, Placentia to North Sydney, two cables; 11, St. Pierre to Duxbury;
18, Charlotte's Town to Nova Scotia; 19, Government Cable, North
Sydney to Bird Rock, Madeline Isles, an