...tar-stained and reeking with moisture, I was strongly reminded of Mr. Kipling's "Song of the Cable:" *• The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down...afar — Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where blind white seasnakes are. There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, On the...

...investigating such movements is through the deep-sea cables which lie stretched along the ocean bottom. Here, " in the deserts of the deep, or the great gray level...plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep," the cable is subject to few vicissitudes, and if well made its life may endure for twenty or more years....

...ultimately obtain their food. As Mr. Kipling in his ' Seven Seas,' says of the deep-sea cables : ' The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down...utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are.' In trying to realize the state of things at the bottom of the deep sea, it is of importance to recognize...

...feet ; beyond this depth all is still, the most dreadful hurricanes leave these depths undisturbed. " There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep." KlPLISO. A block of limestone weighing...

...each other, the closer are the bonds of union. Rudyard Kipling thus speaks of these cables : — " The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down...sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, On the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep. " They have wakened the...

...(In his Panama gateway. Scribner.) Hall, Cyril. Conquests of engineering. Blackie. The Deep-Sea Diver "There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep." Moffett, Cleveland. The deep-sea diver....

...Jonah went down in the belly of the great fish. Recall how the song of the deep-sea cables begins : The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down...of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shellburred cables creep. Mr Kipling's particularisations of the...

...admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' bought it fair! THE DEEP-SEA CABLES T'HE wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down...of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep. Here in the womb of the world—here...

...admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' bought it fair! THE DEEP-SEA CABLES The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down...plains of ooze where the shellburred cables creep. A SONG OF THE ENGLISH Here in the womb of the world — here on the tie-ribs of earth Words, and the...

...dark mass on the planks plunges downward into the oily sea. Another pause, while I picture it rushing "down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are," and the Chief motions furtively with his fingers. In a few minutes we are under way. It is eight bells,...