A trip to Newfoundland; its scenery and fisheries; with an account of the laying of the submarine telegraph cable (1855)
Mullaly, John · New York, T.W. Strong · leaf 72
plosion took place, throwing up a vast body of water to the height of sixty or seventy feet, and shaking the mountains on either side like an earthquake. Our vessel trembled with the concussion, and the spray fell in a shower upou the deck, sprinkling a number of our passengers, to the great amuse-…
Cables, Submarine
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