Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Exploration, Telegraphy, Discovery, Electricity, Accidents

Institutions mentioned:

Atlantic Telegraph Company

    Regards Christopher Columbus as ranking higher than the Atlantic telegraph in bringing continents together, not least because Columbus had but one pole to guide him' while the telegraph had 'a positive and a negative pole', and while Columbus 'discovered an America', the telegraph 'is still at a loss to find an Europe (a new rope)'.