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Show AMAZON'S LONG- CABLE. - - The Amaaot telegraph cable extends from Para, at the mouth of fife Amazon, to Manaos, the capital of the State of Amazonas, at the confluence of the Amazon and Rio Negro. It is therefore rather more than 800 miles In let th. The Amazon flows through a d) e tropical wilderness, almost as virgin ind unbroken today as when Wallace and Bates first described it, half a century agd. To erect or maintain a land telegraph tele-graph through the well-nigh impenetrable impene-trable thickets along ita banks would- be practically, impossible. When, therefore, there-fore, it was the wish of the Brazilian Government to ' connect Para and Manaos by telegraph, the bed of the Amazon was chosen as the rr.oet feasl- ble route, and an English company engaged en-gaged to fumlph and lay a cable. At Para the Amszon cable connects with the whole submarine and land-telegraph tem of the world. Sitting In the cable-room, far up the Amazon at Manaos, I can send a message to any of the six continents, as also to Japan. Java and the Philippine islands. Field i and Stream. |