The telegraph-house at the Newfoundland end was some two miles from the beach, and connected to the cable by a land-line.
CHAPTER IX
THE CELEBRATION
Engineer’s Report—Jubilations—Banquets—Speeches—Honor to the Engineer-in-Chief.
ON landing at Valentia, the engineer-in-chief at once sent the following startling but welcome message to his Board, which was at once passed on to the press:
Charles Bright, to the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company.
Valentia, August 5th.
The Agamemnon has arrived at Valentia, and we are about to land the end of the cable.
The Niagara is in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. There are good signals between the ships.
We reached the rendezvous on the night of the 28th, and the splice with the Niagara cable was made on board the Agamemnon the following morning.{138}
By noon on the 30th, 265 nautical miles were laid between the ships; on the 31st, 540; on the 1st August, 884; on the 2d, 1,256; on the 4th, 1,854; on anchoring at six in the morning in Doulas Bay, 2,022.