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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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"We
could
now
plainly
see
that
Heart's
Content,
so
far
as
its
capabilities
permitted,
was
prepared
to
welcome
us.
The
British
and
American
flags
floated
from
the
church
and
telegraph
station
and
other
buildings.
We
had
dressed
ship,
fired
a
salute,
and
given
three
cheers,
and
Captain
Commerill
of
H.M.S.
Terrible
was
soon
on
board
to
congratulate
us
on
our
success.
At
nine
o'clock,
ship's
time,
just
as
we
had
cut
the
cable
and
made
arrangements
for
the
Medway
to
lay
the
shore
end,
a
message
arrived
giving
us
the
concluding
words
of
a
leader
in
this
morning's
Times:
'It
is
a
great
work,
a
glory
to
our
age
and
nation,
and
the
men
who
have
achieved
it
deserve
to
be
honored
among
the
benefactors
of
their
race.'--'Treaty
of
peace
signed
between
Prussia
and
Austria!'
It
was
now
time
for
the
chief
engineer,
Mr.
Canning,
to
make
the
necessary
preparations
for
splicing
on
board
the
Medway.
Accompanied
by
Mr.
Gooch,
M.P.,
Mr.
Clifford,
Mr.
Willoughby
Smith,
and
Messrs.
Temple
and
Deane,
he
went
on
board,
the
Terrible
and
Niger
having
sent
their
paddle-box
boats
and
cutters
to
assist.
Shortly
afterward
the
Great
Eastern
steamed
into
the
harbor
and
anchored
on
the
north-east
side,
and
was
quickly
surrounded
by
boats
laden
with
visitors.
Mr.
Cyrus
Field
had
come
on
shore
before
the
Great
Eastern
had
left
the
offing,
with
a
view
of
telegraphing
to
St.
John's
to
hire
a
vessel
to
repair
the
cable
unhappily
broken
between
Cape
Ray,
in
Newfoundland,
and
Cape
North,
in
Breton
Island.
Before
a
couple
of
hours
the
shore
end
will
be
landed,
and
it
is
impossible
to
conceive
a
finer
day
for
effecting
this
our
final
operation.
Even
here,
people
can
scarcely
realize
the
fact
that
the
Atlantic
Telegraph
Cable
has
been
laid.
To-morrow,
however,
Heart's
Content[C]
will
awaken
to
the
fact
that
it
is
a
highly
favored
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."
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