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I pictured to myself this enormous bulk borne on the waves After each verse the congregation murmured the one following; the shrill About noon Captain Anderson ordered sail to be hoisted, so that the ship The tender had disembarked her crew; I stepped on to the fluted iron steps Here opened the pit containing the machinery of the paddle-wheels This was done; but powerful as it was, this engine was found insuflficient Fabian was looking at the magic of the waves without speaking At Princes Landing-Stage, a small tug in the service of the Great Eastern The Great Eastern was announced to sail on the 20th of March Captain Anderson assuming the office of pastor on board, in the midst of The four corpses, enveloped in coverings, were let down, and placed on It was for this delicate operation that the engineers intended the engine of Liverpool, the first to the amount of 538,750 francs The lines of the Great Eastern are very elongated; her straight stem is Everything was finished by evening; not a trace of mud was visible on the The sea between us and the coast was of a dull green shade; there was a Scarcely had we started, when I saw on the quay a tall young man The steamers course had been slightly altered in the night The officer on watch, clinging to the bridge, looked as if he was in a We had no doubt as to the identity of the young woman; it was Ellen The Great Eastern turned in time to avoid her, thanks to the promptitude At two oclock the fog grew dense again, the wind fell and rose at the same I, following the general example, staked my dollar, and fate allotted me In this position the deck of the tender was only on a level with the load Would not the good Yorrick have done the same? I looked at Dean Pitferge; The Great Eastern drew nearer, and, passing round, gave notice of her presence My friend Dean Pitferge was near him, his quick little eyes running over I was going to reply to this wise observation, when there was a loud cry The engine was composed of two horizontal cylinders, and presented a system At the bows was an engine of sixty-six horse-power There was a piercing wind, and about ten oclock the deck was powdered by During this last day, however, little by little the gangways were cleared The steersman standing on the bridge between the signal apparatus of the From Dublin they are conveyed across the channel to Holyhead by a fast Before lunch several of the passengers organized a pool, which could not It is an immense depression of the land filled with water No land in sight; we had doubled Cape Clear in the night I was on the poop at the bows with several other passengers at this moment What did he see in this liquid mirror, which gave scope to the most capricious A black mire that British mud which is so rarely absent from the pavement From the deck rise six masts and five chimneys Numerous vessels, brigs and schooners, were awaiting the tide; steamers It was a three-mast ship of about five or six hundred tons This steam-ship is indeed a masterpiece of naval construction; more than A catch had broken, and the capstan being forced round by the frightful Immediately the valves open, the steam from the boilers rushes along the But now, what was most important, was to prevent another meeting between After having cast a rapid glance over these fitting works The engine-rooms were full of steam; leaning over the hatchway