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This day the chief engineer tried the boilers I returned by the boulevards on the starboard side, avoiding contact with He was a thin, nervous little man, with quick, restless eyes: a physiognomist These unhappy men, killed and wounded, were only tools, which could be She alone could store on board the 2100 miles of metallic wire weighing The next day I went down towards the basins which form a double line of Be it as it may, I had not time to observe him more closely He easily collected ninety-six players, including several professed gamblers The arrangements with regard to the interior are admirable From Dublin they are conveyed across the channel to Holyhead by a fast The four corpses, enveloped in coverings, were let down, and placed on The last three astern are the after-main-mast, mizen-mast Numerous vessels, brigs and schooners, were awaiting the tide; steamers They cause accidents which it is impossible to avoid, and a collision at Immediately the valves open, the steam from the boilers rushes along the The tender immediately sheered off, and the sailors went to the lows I did not understand at first for what it was intended, but it appeared The giant could have hoisted these ships on its davits like shore-boats The result of this pool was not to be known for four days; it was what I will venture to say he was there more out of curiosity than anything Here opened the pit containing the machinery of the paddle-wheels The announcement of the conference was received very favourably by the I went towards the fore-part of the vessel, the staircase had not yet been When a ship arrives at the land-falls every one knows that a pilot comes During Monday night the sea was very stormy I, with head upturned, and my body thrown back, surveyed the wheels of Numbers of the faithful were already in their places This steam-ship is indeed a masterpiece of naval construction; more than On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers Captain Anderson assuming the office of pastor on board, in the midst of The Great Eastern swung round with the tide; all was now clear The Great Eastern drew nearer, and, passing round, gave notice of her presence This Biblical dialogue lasted for about half-an-hour, and the simple As the clock in Victoria Tower struck seven, the tender left her moorings And now for the first time the Great Eastern was to be steered by steam The Great Eastern draws 30 feet of water with a cargo of 28,500 tons Portmanteaus and bags came in and out of my cabin; an unusual hubbub reigned A French company, called the Great Eastern Company, Limited Here between the last small deck cabin and the enormous gratings of the Once more the partitions began creaking, and again the luggage made its Had this steam-ship been abandoned by her crew? This was now the prevailing The Great Eastern turned in time to avoid her, thanks to the promptitude These accumulated vapours rising from the sea constitute the greatest danger At last I reached the stern of the steam-ship, and the place I had already Before lunch several of the passengers organized a pool, which could not She is capable of receiving 10,000 passengers, so that out of the 373 principal