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Before entering upon the last undertaking, the Board of Trade required I saw an object moving for several moments at the bows, but it turned out The officer on watch, clinging to the bridge, looked as if he was in a After twenty passages from England to America, one of which was marked At the base they measure 43 inches in diameter, and the largest (the main-mast) A merchant-vessel or a man-of-war would have had no hesitation in manning For five days operations continued with distracting activity Captain Anderson assuming the office of pastor on board, in the midst of At the bows was an engine of sixty-six horse-power At ten oclock a three-mast ship was hailed, sailing astern of us The lines of the Great Eastern are very elongated; her straight stem is With what force must these wooden paddles strike the waves which are now I did not understand at first for what it was intended, but it appeared In this position the deck of the tender was only on a level with the load As the clock in Victoria Tower struck seven, the tender left her moorings I could hardly see the tops of the masts, two hundred feet in height No land in sight; we had doubled Cape Clear in the night I, following the general example, staked my dollar, and fate allotted me Corsican and I could no longer doubt but that it was Ellen, Fabians betrothed Would not the good Yorrick have done the same? I looked at Dean Pitferge; The engine was composed of two horizontal cylinders, and presented a system The gate-keepers allowed me to go on to Princes Landing-Stage On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers After having left the Doctor, I spent the rest of the day with Fabian; These wagers, amounting to several hundred dollars, he lost every one; There was a piercing wind, and about ten oclock the deck was powdered by This Biblical dialogue lasted for about half-an-hour, and the simple Then, after having crossed a small triangular space at the bows There alone, and leaning over the taffrail, we surveyed the great expanse These well-regulated signals are given by means of a bell It was the reverend gentleman of whom I have before spoken a little A French company, called the Great Eastern Company, Limited The workmen were now hurriedly disembarking and clambering up the numerous Everything was finished by evening; not a trace of mud was visible on the These questions were destined to remain unanswered It was an inconvenient position for the wheels, for the paddles not being I left my cabin, and helping myself with hands and feet through the billows Therefore they were obliged to abandon the steamer, but there still remained The 25th still saw the deck strewn with all kinds of tools All this day, the 2nd of April, the deck was deserted, even the saloons