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PREFACE.

This book professes to do no more than scratch the surface of a grand and interesting subject. It recounts a few of the adventures and experiences of those who compass land and sea in order to connect the ends of the earth by means of electric lines and cables.

R. M. B.

Harlow-on-the-Hill,
1882.