for effecting this our final operation. To‐morrow Heart’s Content will awaken to the fact that it is a highly‐favoured place in the world’s esteem, the western landing‐place of that marvel of electric communication with the eastern hemisphere which is now happily, and we hope finally, established.” The foregoing simple record tells the great story of this memorable voyage. In England the progress of the expedition was known from day to day, but on the American side of the ocean all was uncertainty. Some had gone to Heart’s Content hoping to witness the arrival of the fleet, but not so many as the year before, for the memory of the last failure was too fresh, and they feared another disappointment. But still a faithful few were there who kept their daily watch. The correspondents of the American papers reported only a long and anxious suspense till that morning when the first ship was seen in the offing. And now the hull of the _Great Eastern_ looms up all glorious in that morning sky. They are coming! Instantly all was wild excitement on shore. Boats put off to row towards the fleet. The _Albany_ was the first to round the point and enter the bay. The _Terrible_ came close behind. The _Medway_ stopped an hour or two to join on the heavy shore end, while the _Great Eastern_, gliding calmly in as if she had done nothing remarkable, dropped her anchor in front of the telegraph house, having trailed behind her a chain of two thousand miles, to bind the Old World to the New. That same afternoon, as soon as the shore end was landed, Captain Anderson and the officers of the fleet went in a body to the little church of Heart’s Content to render thanks for the success of the expedition. A sermon was preached on the text, “There shall be no more sea,” and all joined in the sublime prayers and thanksgivings of the Church of England. Thus the voyage ended as it began. [Illustration: THE “GREAT EASTERN” LAYING THE ATLANTIC CABLE. (_From Cassell’s “Illustrated History of England.”_)]