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A black mire that British mud which is so rarely absent from the pavement Everything was finished by evening; not a trace of mud was visible on the At Princes Landing-Stage, a small tug in the service of the Great Eastern No land in sight; we had doubled Cape Clear in the night For five days operations continued with distracting activity Her steel hull was so heavy that the davits to which it was attached bent He easily collected ninety-six players, including several professed gamblers I then made up my mind to visit all the ins and outs of this immense ant-hill She is capable of receiving 10,000 passengers, so that out of the 373 principal About noon Captain Anderson ordered sail to be hoisted, so that the ship After the long separation which had estranged us from each other This Biblical dialogue lasted for about half-an-hour, and the simple One of the surgeons on board embarked to go with them to Liverpool What were we against the husband, the master? Nothing But in this respect the steward knew no more than I did, and he left me The four corpses, enveloped in coverings, were let down, and placed on These questions were destined to remain unanswered This steam-ship is indeed a masterpiece of naval construction; more than And now for the first time the Great Eastern was to be steered by steam There was no longer any doubt of icebergs being very near At six oclock next morning, after passing a sleepless night Seen from the side, these wheels looked narrow and contracted I saw an object moving for several moments at the bows, but it turned out She alone could store on board the 2100 miles of metallic wire weighing On Wednesday night the weather was very bad, my balance was strangely A catch had broken, and the capstan being forced round by the frightful As the clock in Victoria Tower struck seven, the tender left her moorings On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers The water from the skies and sea mingled in a dense fog First of all the anchor had to be raised There alone, and leaning over the taffrail, we surveyed the great expanse When the first attempt to lay the Atlantic cable had failed Would not the good Yorrick have done the same? I looked at Dean Pitferge; The gate-keepers allowed me to go on to Princes Landing-Stage The fore-masts and the main-masts carry the schooner-sails, the top-sails Before lunch several of the passengers organized a pool, which could not These delays considerably affected the enterprize of the freighters Portmanteaus and bags came in and out of my cabin; an unusual hubbub reigned I should not have been surprised to see the stokers working in black clothes; An anchor-boat, intended for this purpose, had just stoppered on the chains In order to raise the anchors it was only necessary to send the steam from