Personal reminiscences of James AScrymser, in times of peace and war . Map of the Mexican and Central and SouthAmerican Telegraph Systems THE accompanying map clearly describes the VIA GALVES-TON and VIA COLON systems of the Mexican TelegraphCompany and the Central and South American Telegraph Com-pany. On the map, I have inserted the duplicate NewYork-Colon Cable, which is to be laid within a few months, and,by means of dotted lines, have shown the proposed new exten-sions from Buenos Aires, in the Argentine, to Santos and Rio deJaneiro, in the Republic of Brazil. With the map there is p
Personal reminiscences of James AScrymser, in times of peace and war . Map of the Mexican and Central and SouthAmerican Telegraph Systems THE accompanying map clearly describes the VIA GALVES-TON and VIA COLON systems of the Mexican TelegraphCompany and the Central and South American Telegraph Com-pany. On the map, I have inserted the duplicate NewYork-Colon Cable, which is to be laid within a few months, and,by means of dotted lines, have shown the proposed new exten-sions from Buenos Aires, in the Argentine, to Santos and Rio deJaneiro, in the Republic of Brazil. With the map there is printed mileage summaries of cablesand landlines. These summaries include the new duplicateNew York-Colon Cable about to be laid, but do not include thenew cables from Buenos Aires to Santos and Rio de Janeiro,about 1200 miles and 1300 miles, respectively. It is an impressive fact that the cables of the Central andSouth American Telegraph Company rest on the bottom at adepth of 18,000 feet in the Pacific Ocean and at a height of 12,000feet at the highest point in the
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