Show surveying Survoy ina ing for an arcaro loam aus aua gralian cable discovery Dla Din covery of af n the wonderful detain of vie vat eifle wid and Ant trallis the result of the sounding bounding recently carried cir ried out by the abati ob tn m A merican american ve bool vi h b montarey Mont prcy prey y T on the califor california oia coast and th sandwich I 1 islands with ith a viva to the ai lining of vic fie proposed adivi 3 1 can auta aus gralian crali jn cable cannot bo be regarded aa satisfactory zatis starting from monterey Mont orcy bay the albatross 3 took 11 nt at evory every mile at first but eater alit ino os AN were ere subsequently allowed and over the greater part of the honolulu half balf of the section the lino tin was only drop dropped pod at from wn ten to fifteen mile intervals inter P ajor or souto some distance out frow from Mont eicy cy there stretched cheb a wide avide plain of sand and mud is as perfect a cable bed its as coult could 1 l b ba wished for but about halfway half way awro aarom to tau ane islands the vole volcanic anic re region lion is i cached and it is evident that the re relon region 0 lon would prove more troublesome ome to a i cible cable thain doeg doe the java sea ea to the present australian line the albatross as took her course coure about forty miles fco tho the northward of the bub marice vo volcano leant known as the so filled after admiral belloma bel knap of the american sli ship ll 11 Tasco rara who ilke discovered it alas ing belknap the sea bottom was found to to be coverer with lava inva but it fc was waa soft and friable and would probably do no damace dima arc to a cable in it its pre present acut condition the real trouble lies in the presence of th tho active volcano which is liable to break out with f resh fresh vill firor at any time in many parts alon the projected cable route from tho annet ican i co coast alst to hawaii the sea is found to be abnor abnormally niall y deep as is tho the case in m many parts of the youth south pacific in ono pla the bounding wire broke at a depth 0 01 four thousand six hundred imd and forty three fathoms and at many point the depth was found to be ever tive miles cables lying at such ri 0 depth would be found exceeding din kult Tt recovery covery in I 1 e ota on bleak f or ta splicing fleina purposes from frodi ahat we knoof f tho the ocean bed on the I 1 section running south from honolulu to aboa amoa and fiji sa the loudon london colonies Colonie 4 and india indi the pro prospects of a cable being safe in that part of tho the pacific are much better than would be the case alonga the section just surveyed by tho the albatross the ocean bed is comparatively free from 44 bad coral patches and thord thordia ia tittle little if any seismic neti activity vity tiff till the new Ile hebrides brides group is reached at lie iho saino saine time it is well to remember that no part of the pacific is to be trusted only a few years back what seems seem to have been a terrine terrific volcanic outburst occur occurred reil in the neighborhood of tonya and a good ly sized island now known as island was thrown up as an abdill loa to king Geor georges gres picturesque minioLa do tonga and zand the new Ilo hebrides brids for the present form the northern boundary of activity from the new zealand end of the volcanic region as far it us ii known but it is possible that many disturbances occur from time 10 ainuu lu in mid sen bea of which nothing is heard lude doea d this is considered considered probable by many people who mado made a study of the pa pacific caffe in this respect and the frequent occur ance oi of tidal wavea in a measure acara bc irs them out in this theory with regard ard to this much talked of american australian cable it does docs not seem secra alit tho the australians Austri lians and now new Ze alanders are any too keen lioen upon the subject the americans have evinced moro more interest iu io the proposed enterprise and it is un der stood that thura thera is a syn syndicate dacate ready to hand band ln inan kin francisco to talce take up the work at any tit tine te the Engli english sli company pot got t i amr time aa ao yo with the purpose of aar in g a cable frd vancouver tate toa tho t is not adt much h heard of now alays lays aud it Ls is liko ly enough that 4 have haac been found in m themay the way ofil alboth ol both A hemea sc ia A si |