Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Office of the Telegraph Company at Bombay, 1870.

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Office of the Telegraph Company at Bombay, 1870. 'We have received from Dr. E. W. James, civil surgeon to the British station at Aden, several photographs [relating to] the successful completion of the line of submarine telegraph from Bombay to Suez. The Great Eastern, attended by the Chiltern, both under command of Captain Halpin, lay at Bombay, to take in coal, from Jan. 28 to Feb. 14; but the Bombay shore-end of the cable, ten miles in length, was laid by the Chiltern on the 7th. The Great Eastern laid the main line to Aden, paying out 1750 miles of cable in a distance of 1600 miles, at dep