THE PACIFIC CABLE.
TAXING OCEAN SOUNDINGS 1 United Press Associatianr-By Elootrio • t Telegraph—Copyright. ( SYDNEY, June 2 S. The steamer Britannia, which an&wi rj at Norfolk Island on Juno 12, took sound-. lags across from Brisbane. .These disclosed that generally there was a ’very suitable • 1 bottom for laying the Pacific cable. The . deep soundings taken gave a depth of two miles and & half, A large range of mountains was discovered, 16CX>ft high, sixty ; miles long and thirty in breadth. The I cable will have to go round! these mountains. It is proposed to land the cable { at Anson’s Bay, where the company lias se- 1 cured 100 acres of land. It is understood | that Norfolk Island will bo a rep eating ( station, and a large staff will be kept V there. After a stay of a few days the , Britannia will resume taking soundings to the Bay of Islands, in Zealand.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12537, 26 June 1901, Page 3
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