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At Princes Landing-Stage, a small tug in the service of the Great Eastern He had told me as much of his past life as he wished me to know; his life I went on board and found it already crowded with workmen and mechanics She is capable of receiving 10,000 passengers, so that out of the 373 principal This day the chief engineer tried the boilers The steamers course had been slightly altered in the night The sea was magnificent and resplendent beneath the first rays of a spring Towards five oclock a small steamer, intended as a shore-boat for the Great At two oclock the fog grew dense again, the wind fell and rose at the same The execution could not fail to be worthy of the work But my imagination carried me no farther; all these things I did indeed Stretching on either side were two wide streets, or rather boulevards Hatch, was an orator of no mean power Beside the Great Eastern, these three-mast ships looked like barges; their Two out of six boilers were removed, and one chimney out of three belonging Only at night, perhaps eluding her gaoler, she came out to bathe herself The first officer, well wrapped in his macintosh, and perched on the bridge I returned by the boulevards on the starboard side, avoiding contact with The fact is, these divisions are reckoned from noon to noon First of all the anchor had to be raised The water from the skies and sea mingled in a dense fog He easily collected ninety-six players, including several professed gamblers I went towards the fore-part of the vessel, the staircase had not yet been In order to raise the anchors it was only necessary to send the steam from I then made up my mind to visit all the ins and outs of this immense ant-hill On leaving the station, I went to the Adelphi Hotel And now for the first time the Great Eastern was to be steered by steam However, the steamer had not yet sunk to the load water-line 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 fore-masts and the main-masts carry the schooner-sails, the top-sails It was an inconvenient position for the wheels, for the paddles not being The Great Eastern was announced to sail on the 20th of March Immediately the valves open, the steam from the boilers rushes along the Thanks to this natural condition, the streams of the Thames and the Mersey If the Great Eastern is not merely a nautical engine, but rather a microcosm