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OVER a year ago the United States Congress authorised preliminary measures for laying a submarine cable from the west coast of America to Japan. The United States steamer Tuscarora, then on duty off the Isthmus of Darien, was despatched on this business, and started September 22, 1873, from San Francisco for the Straits of Juan de Fuca. Reconnaissances off Victoria, Vancouver's Island, discovered a gradually shelving bottom in all respects suitable for a cable landing. The steamer coaled at Nanairno. Coal is also found at Newcastle Island, which is not far distant. It may be mentioned that the coal of this region is semi-bituminous, and that recent discoveries have largely increased its product.
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Soundings in the North Pacific . Nature 9, 150 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/009150a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/009150a0