“...there are some twenty-seven full-paged chromo-lithographic illustrations, showing Great Eastern, and her Government consort, the Terrible, in every interesting position; the machinery for paying out , bringing back, and splicing the cable the lowering of buoys, and, in fact, every circumstance of interest or amusement in the expedition; for, in the latter light, we must regard the plate illustrative of weighing the anchor of the monster ship, with the fiddler on the capstan head inspiring the straining throng to active duty….”
[Review of Russell's Atlantic Telegraph, The Albion, 1866]