Show miscellaneous A AC i w taj ted i r THE TA loss OF or steamships the first fir i steam i aik ail ship that crossed the atlantic was the sirius sinus in 1838 the regular line of european europea 1 n steamships ipg was started by mr cunard in 1840 and belbat time there have been lost on the stormy atlantic eleven vessels making an average ij ag in eighteen years of one in in every eight t e en e i months I 1 tnie trie disasters to ocean steamships may be up tip as follows 1 president never heard of 2 columbia all hands bands saed sayed 3 3 humboldt 1 4 city of glasgow never heard beard ard of 5 city of philadelphia all hands handi saved 16 6 franklin frankiin all hands saved 7 arctic A few only saved S pacific never heard beard of 9 lyonnais A few only saved 10 tempest never heard of eaustria 11 austria burned A few hew ew only aved saved din ddn C s the boston independent has a letter flom flow one of col popes party dated camp pacos july 28 ile lie thinks that the work at must musk be temporarily abandoned and that the next experiment will be at new mexico liioi the formation of the plaits about pacos he ile reni reul remarks arks becomes more peculiar as the au gi r goes down and more difficult to penetrate the crum crumbling hing king bing strata constantly caving ren dired tiered it almost impossible to keep the bore bor e sufficient sufficiently cien clen aly clear for working purposes and the friction on the tubing was so great that with tue the apparatus incise in use usa it was almost impossible to raise or lower it another inch jt it is singular jelt that although the depth penetrated is sevi sev s ev i eral hundred feet no solid strata could be found |