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Numerous vessels, brigs and schooners, were awaiting the tide; steamers Involuntarily one looked for the village steeple which was calling to prayer There was no longer any doubt of icebergs being very near After each verse the congregation murmured the one following; the shrill Beside the Great Eastern, these three-mast ships looked like barges; their Meanwhile the tender approached the Great Eastern, whose chains were violently The engine was composed of two horizontal cylinders, and presented a system I could hardly see the tops of the masts, two hundred feet in height This Biblical dialogue lasted for about half-an-hour, and the simple It is here that all ships bound for Liverpool, whether steamers or sailing-ships Friends exchanged quiet greetings; every one held a Prayer-book in his It was an inconvenient position for the wheels, for the paddles not being First of all the anchor had to be raised These well-regulated signals are given by means of a bell After twenty passages from England to America, one of which was marked If this plan succeeds, a man will be able to direct the gigantic body The church was the great saloon, formed by the upper-deck at the stern For the benefit of those partial to comparisons, I will add that it is What did he see in this liquid mirror, which gave scope to the most capricious The next day I went down towards the basins which form a double line of The tender had disembarked her crew; I stepped on to the fluted iron steps Once more the partitions began creaking, and again the luggage made its The Captain and the first officer set the example, and with new gloves I was on the poop at the bows with several other passengers at this moment The officer on watch had ordered the sails to be taken in Below us, at a distance of forty feet, the screw was beating the water Here between the last small deck cabin and the enormous gratings of the At half-past ten the Captain rose, and the service began; he read a chapter Towards five oclock a small steamer, intended as a shore-boat for the Great This day the chief engineer tried the boilers The lines of the Great Eastern are very elongated; her straight stem is The muddy waters of the Mersey were lashed into foam by the slowly revolving The execution could not fail to be worthy of the work I will venture to say he was there more out of curiosity than anything This costly operation accomplished, a long crack in her exterior plates Therefore, to the great regret of the sailors, it had to be abandoned I thought myself very fortunate that the screw was allowed to continue Her movable engine was first hoisted on board by means of windlasses In order to raise the anchors it was only necessary to send the steam from The sea was magnificent and resplendent beneath the first rays of a spring