soon spread; men rushed from compass to dynamometer. “We have caught it! we have caught it!” was heard from every lip. There was in this little world of ours as much ever-varying excitement, as much elation and depression, as if it were a focus into which converged the joys and sorrows of humanity. When the Great Eastern first became sensible of the stress brought upon her by the grappling iron and rope she shook her head, and kept on her course, disappointing the hopes of those who were watching the dynamometer, and who saw with delight the rising strain. This happened several times. It was for a long time doubtful whether the grapnel held to anything more tenacious than the ooze, which for a moment arrested its progress and then gave way with a jerk as the ship drifted; but in the early morning, the long steady pull made it evident the curved prongs had laid their grip on a solid body, which yielded slowly to the pressure of the vessel as she went to leeward, but at the same time resisted so forcibly as to slew round her bow. The scientific men calculated the force exercised by grapnel and rope alone to be far less than that now shown on the dynamometer. And if the Great Eastern had indeed got hold of a substance in the bottom of the Atlantic at once so tenacious and so yielding, what could it be but the lost Cable? [Illustration: E. Walker, lith from a drawing by R. Dudley London, Day & Sons, Limited, Lith. GETTING OUT ONE OF THE LARGE BUOYS FOR LAUNCHING AUGUST 2ND.] [Illustration: from a drawing by R. Dudley London, Day & Sons, Limited, Lith. GENERAL VIEW OF PORT MAGEE &c. FROM THE HEIGHTS BELOW CORA BEG. THE CAROLINE LAYING THE SHORE END OF THE CABLE JULY 22ND.]