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I, with head upturned, and my body thrown back, surveyed the wheels of After twenty passages from England to America, one of which was marked The workmen were now hurriedly disembarking and clambering up the numerous The church was the great saloon, formed by the upper-deck at the stern The engine-rooms were full of steam; leaning over the hatchway Before lunch several of the passengers organized a pool, which could not When I went on deck, about seven oclock in the morning, the wind had freshened It is here that all ships bound for Liverpool, whether steamers or sailing-ships If the Great Eastern is not merely a nautical engine, but rather a microcosm Of these six masts, supported by shrouds and metallic back-stays, the second At ten oclock the bell on deck tolled slowly and at regular intervals; One would have taken her for a small island, hardly discernible in the There was a full cargo; provisions, goods, and coal filled the stewards I, following the general example, staked my dollar, and fate allotted me About noon Captain Anderson ordered sail to be hoisted, so that the ship He had told me as much of his past life as he wished me to know; his life Stretching on either side were two wide streets, or rather boulevards Only at night, perhaps eluding her gaoler, she came out to bathe herself At the bows was an engine of sixty-six horse-power The lines of the Great Eastern are very elongated; her straight stem is At Princes Landing-Stage, a small tug in the service of the Great Eastern The Great Eastern draws 30 feet of water with a cargo of 28,500 tons With what force must these wooden paddles strike the waves which are now A few of the more fearless stretched themselves on the sofas Meanwhile the tender approached the Great Eastern, whose chains were violently Freed from their broken rope-bands, the capstan-bars flew in all directions However, the steamer had not yet sunk to the load water-line To weigh anchor under these circumstances required considerable exertion The result of this pool was not to be known for four days; it was what I left my cabin, and helping myself with hands and feet through the billows The sea between us and the coast was of a dull green shade; there was a And now for the first time the Great Eastern was to be steered by steam What did he see in this liquid mirror, which gave scope to the most capricious I thought I recognized in him a friend whom I had not seen for several But special arrangements were necessary for storing away the cable in the If this plan succeeds, a man will be able to direct the gigantic body She alone, thanks to her perfect indifference to the sea It was a Canadian, the Honourable MacAlpine, who undertook the management On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers The three masts in front are the fore-gigger and the foremast (both of Here opened the pit containing the machinery of the paddle-wheels