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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cables, Ocean (search)
wfoundland, in the summer of 1873, and a few months later the Brazilian telegraph cable was laid from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to a bay on the coast of Portugal. In 1874 the Direct United States Cable Company was formed and laid a line from Ballenskilligs Bay, Ireland, to Rye, N. H., via Nova Scotia. The same year a sixth line across the Atlantic was laid from Ireland to Newfoundland. Another French line was laid from Brest to St. Pierre, an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in 1880. The companies owning all these lines having formed a combination and pooled their receipts, to keep up rates on the transmission of messages, a competing company was formed by James Gordon Bennett and John W. Mackay. This laid in 1884-85 two lines from Ireland to Nova Scotia, having also a connecting line from Ireland to France. In 1900 plans were perfected for a Pacific cable, to extend from San Francisco to Honolulu, thence to Wake Island, Guam Island, and Manila, all United States possessions.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
e words United Colonies have been used, the style be altered for the future to the United States. This domain now numbers forty-five States, six Territories, and one District, and various possessions, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Guam, Wake, and Samoan Islands, etc. The area of the States is 2,718,780 square miles; of the Territories, 883,490; and of the District, seventy; in all, 3,602,340 square miles. In latitude it extends from Key West, its most southerly point, 24° 33′ N., to lands, be taken for its western limits, it extends to the 174th meridian. The population of the United States in 1890 was 63,069,756, and in 1900 had increased to 76,295,220. This is exclusive of the Philippine Islands, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam, Wake, and Samoan Islands. The government is a representative democracy. Each State has an independent legislature for its local affairs, but all are legislated for, in national matters, by two Houses of Congress; the Senate, whose members are elected
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wake Island, (search)
Wake Island, An island in the North Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Hong-Kong. On July 4, 1898, Gen. Francis V. Greene, with a few officers, whington, this 17th day of January, 1899, took possession of the atoll known as Wake Island, for the United States of America. Wake Island is supposed to be the DesiWake Island is supposed to be the Desierta—that is, the desert, and La Mira, take care —of the charts of the Spanish galleon taken by Anson in 1743. It was discovered in 1796 by the Prince William Henryost frequent. It is not to be confounded with Weeks Island, or with another Wake Island on the western coast of Patagonia. Wake Island is nearly or quite awash iWake Island is nearly or quite awash in heavy gales; very low and steep to seaward; from 9 to 20 miles in circumference, according to wind and tide. The larger portion of it is a lagoon. The vegetationfamous Wilkes expedition westward from San Francisco to New York hove to off Wake Island on the night of Dec. 19, 1841, and in the morning after breakfast a number o