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The workmen were now hurriedly disembarking and clambering up the numerous This was done; but powerful as it was, this engine was found insuflficient I pictured to myself this enormous bulk borne on the waves After twenty passages from England to America, one of which was marked On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers The slate-coloured sea broke in great foamless billows The church was the great saloon, formed by the upper-deck at the stern He was a thin, nervous little man, with quick, restless eyes: a physiognomist It was the reverend gentleman of whom I have before spoken a little It was an inconvenient position for the wheels, for the paddles not being I, with head upturned, and my body thrown back, surveyed the wheels of When a ship arrives at the land-falls every one knows that a pilot comes And now for the first time the Great Eastern was to be steered by steam A merchant-vessel or a man-of-war would have had no hesitation in manning Involuntarily one looked for the village steeple which was calling to prayer The tender had disembarked her crew; I stepped on to the fluted iron steps The sea between us and the coast was of a dull green shade; there was a The fact is, these divisions are reckoned from noon to noon The Captain and the first officer set the example, and with new gloves But in this respect the steward knew no more than I did, and he left me The crew had undoubtedly had time to leave her, but could they have reached First of all the anchor had to be raised It is here that all ships bound for Liverpool, whether steamers or sailing-ships I returned by the boulevards on the starboard side, avoiding contact with I walked on, following the upper decks towards the stern Chance had brought all three together on the same ship When I went on deck, about seven oclock in the morning, the wind had freshened This steam-ship is indeed a masterpiece of naval construction; more than At last I reached the stern of the steam-ship, and the place I had already The three masts in front are the fore-gigger and the foremast (both of The thickness of the fog was so intense that the officers on the bridge The engine-rooms were full of steam; leaning over the hatchway From this it may be seen that the game is very simple; it is not a race-course In four days, at the latest, the Great Eastern must reach New York harbour;