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I was on the poop at the bows with several other passengers at this moment A profound silence reigned among the congregation; the officers occupied A catch had broken, and the capstan being forced round by the frightful Had this steam-ship been abandoned by her crew? This was now the prevailing The slate-coloured sea broke in great foamless billows Whist was impossible, for the tables glided from under the players hands When a ship arrives at the land-falls every one knows that a pilot comes At six oclock next morning, after passing a sleepless night The church was the great saloon, formed by the upper-deck at the stern I heard the irregular roaring of the screw, and the wheels beating the I was going to reply to this wise observation, when there was a loud cry The hull of the Great Eastern is proof against the most formidable seas; It was a three-mast ship of about five or six hundred tons To weigh anchor under these circumstances required considerable exertion One of the surgeons on board embarked to go with them to Liverpool And now for the first time the Great Eastern was to be steered by steam All this day, the 2nd of April, the deck was deserted, even the saloons With what force must these wooden paddles strike the waves which are now The steersman standing on the bridge between the signal apparatus of the All these good people seemed to have hats and boots of a dazzling brightness A black mire that British mud which is so rarely absent from the pavement At the bows was an engine of sixty-six horse-power After twenty passages from England to America, one of which was marked In order to raise the anchors it was only necessary to send the steam from Everything was finished by evening; not a trace of mud was visible on the After having left the Doctor, I spent the rest of the day with Fabian;