Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 353
.Nevertheless, the promoters of the Atlantic cablesent out a third time, and when failure met themagain, it seemed to common minds that theirscheme was a settled impossibility. Not so withthe heroes. Each failure showed them some faultsin their plans or machinery. These they amended.Thus, while… … THE GRAPNEL. five feet; her breadth eighty-five feet, and her bur-then twenty-two thousand tons. One of the prin-cipal causes of failure in previous expeditions wasthe inability of the cable to endure the severe strainput upon it in stormy weather as it passed froman ordinarily unsteady vessel into…
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