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198 THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF TELEGRAPHS.
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. ¦ •¦ The Word " Telegraph" (Derived Fr...
beacon gestures fires and visible tlie tops signs of : distant such , as hills lanterns carrier , hoisting pigeons of , drunis flags ,
on , recentl speakin y g , since trumpets the invention ( all used of b gunpowder y barbarous , by nations cannons ) , ; sk and y-rockets more ,
and The blue troop lights s and . marines which landed on the coast of America
were during regulated the war b , y when the notes scouring of the tlie bug woods le , which in detached were The so immense parties clearly , understood that false movements were ever made .
no number China of directed barges in and their boats various which routes crowd both the b Imperial y night and Canal day of ,
"b y the from are sound hill of to the hill gong b . throwing The Indians out their of , America arras with convey or without
intellistaves gence in them ; and even y the Hottentots , the poor degraded Bosjesmanscommunicate with each other by arranging fires on the sides
, of Tke the hills use of in beacon certain -fires positions as a . means of giving speedy warning of the
the approach het Jeremiah of an wh enemy . 0 wrote is very six centuries ancient , before being the alluded Christian to by era , and Prop counselled the , Benjamites " to set up a sign of fire in
Bethhaecerem Beacon- " fires as evil were appeared , for many out of years the and , north a in very , an and Act favorite great of the destruction method Scottish of . . communication in our own country
Parliament , 1455 , there are dire , ctions that one bale or fagot two " shall bales be that warning they are of the coming approach indeed of ; and tne four English bales in blazing any manner beside ;
each Sir other Walter , that Scofct _^ _the refers enemy to are this in great practice force in . " his " Lay of the Last The
Minstrel ; " and Macaulay , too , in his glorious fragment of " Armada , " tells us
Ilow—As fast ic from Broad every er still village becam round e the the blaz horse e , and came louder spurring warlike still the errand in . din , went
And And roused eastward in straight an from ancient , wild hall Blackheath the gallant the squires of Kent . , Southward from many Surrey ' s pleasant hills flew those started bright for couriers the North forth .:
All And High night on on and bleak from on Hamp tower without stead to a tower pause ' s swarth they , untired y moor they they they hounded still from ; hill to hill . ?
Till Till the like proud volcanoes peak _dared unfurled to heaven the nag the sprang o oil ' er stony Malvern Darwin , hills sprang ' s of rocky lonel Wale dales s ; ;
Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze ' s y height ; Till streamed in crimson on the wind forth the Wrekin El ' statel s crest of fane light ;
And Till broad tower and and fierce hamlet the rose star in came arms o ' er all on the y boundless ' s y plain , ;
And Till Belvoir Lincoln ' s sped lordl the y terraces message the on sign o ' er to the Lincoln Oaunt wide vale sent embattled of , Trent ; ile
Till Skiddaw saw the fire that burned on ' s p , And the red glare of Skiddaw roused the "burghers of Carlisle . " '
That some attempt was made by the ancients to improve upon
such signals is evident from the tenth book of Polybius _, who speaks
198 The Rise And Progress Of Telegraphs.
198 THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF TELEGRAPHS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/54/
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