The telegraph manual: a complete history and description of the semaphoric, electric and magnetic telegraphs of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, ancient and modern.

24 THE TELEGRAPH.
the watch refused not the light that was sent from afar, lighting a larger pile than those above mentioned; but it darted
across the lake Gorgopis, and having reached mount ZEgiplanctus, stirred it up that the rule of fire. might not be stint, and
lighting it up in unscanting strength, they send on a mighty
beard of flame, so that it passed glaring beyond the headland
that looks down upon the Saronic frith, then it darted down
until it reached the Arachnaean height, the neighboring post of
observation, and thereupon to this roof of the Atreide here
darts this light, no new descendant of the fire of Ida. Such,
in truth, were my regulations for the bearers of the torch
fulfilled by succession from one to another; and the first and
the last in the course surpass the rest. Such proof and signal
do I tell thee of my husband having sent me tidings from Troy.
CH. To the gods, my queen! I will make prayer hereafter,
but I could wish to hear and to admire once more, at length,
those tidings as thou tellest them.
CLYT. On this very day the Greeks are in possession of Troy.
I think that a discordant clamor is loud in the city. If you
pour into the same vessel both vinegar and oil, you will pronounce that they are foemen, and not friends. So you may
hear the voices of the captured and the conquerors distinct
because of a double result; for the one party having fallen
about, the corpses of men, both those of brothers, and children
those of their aged parents, are bewailing, from a throat that
is no longer free, the death of those that were dearest to them.
But the other party, on the contrary, is hungry, fatigued from
roaming all the night after the battle, arranging at meals of
such things as the city furnishes, by no fixed law in the distribution, but as each hath drawn the lot of fortune. Already
are they dwelling in the captured houses of the Trojans, freed
from the frost beneath the sky, and from the dews, thus will
they, poor wretches, sleep the whole night through without
sentries."
NORTH AMERICAN ABORIGINAL TELEGRAPH.
The most remarkable signaling records are to be found on
various parts of the North American continent. The aborigines,
or a race of people centuries since extinct, had their signal
stations or mounds. Upon the loftiest summits beacon fires
were built, and the rising smoke by day and the red flame by
night communicated intelligence to others far distant. These
mounds, these beacon remains, are still to be seen in different
parts of America. An eminent author upon this subject says,
that the most commanding positions on the hills bordering the