Baedeker's Great
Britain.]
[Footnote 59: Lulworth in Dorset, to Flamborough Head: Lulworth is on
the southern coast of England, west of the Isle of Wight: Flamborough
Head is on the northeastern coast of England and extends into the German
Ocean.]
[Footnote 60: Weald: a name given to an oval-shaped chalk area in
England, beginning near the Straits of Dover, and extending into the
counties of Kent, Surrey, Hants, and Sussex.]
[Footnote 61: Lieut. Brooke: Brooke devised an apparatus for deep-sea
sounding from which the weight necessary to sink the instrument rapidly,
was detached when it reached the bottom. The object was to relieve the
strain on the rope caused by rapid soundings. Improved apparatuses have
been invented since the time of Brooke.]
[Footnote 62: Ehrenberg (1795-1876): a German naturalist noted for his
studies of Infusoria.]
[Footnote 63: Bailey of West Point (1811-1857): an American naturalist
noted for his researches in microscopy.]
[Footnote 64: enterprise of laying down the telegraph-cable: the first
Atlantic telegraph-cable between England and America was laid in 1858 by
Cyrus W. Field of New York. Messages were sent over it for a few weeks;
then it ceased to act. A permanent cable was laid by Mr. Field in 1866.]
[Footnote 65: Dr. Wallich (1786-1854): a Danish botanist and member of
the Royal Society.
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