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5. That the paying-out machinery used on board the Great Eastern
worked perfectly, and can be confidently relied on for laying
cables across the Atlantic.
6. That with the improved telegraphic instruments for long
submarine lines, a speed of more than eight words per minute can be
obtained through such a cable as the present Atlantic one between
Ireland and Newfoundland, as the amount of slack actually paid out
did not exceed fourteen per cent., which would have made the total
cable laid between Valentia and Heart's Content nineteen hundred
miles.
7. That the present Atlantic cable, though capable of bearing a
strain of seven tons, did not experience more than fourteen
hundred-weight in being paid out into the deepest water of the
Atlantic between Ireland and Newfoundland.
8. That there is no difficulty in mooring buoys in the deep water
of the Atlantic between Ireland and Newfoundland, and that two
buoys even when moored by a piece of the Atlantic cable itself,
which had been previously lifted from the bottom, have ridden out a
gale.


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