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About fifty workmen were scattered on the metallic skylights The last three astern are the after-main-mast, mizen-mast The giant could have hoisted these ships on its davits like shore-boats Immediately the valves open, the steam from the boilers rushes along the This day the chief engineer tried the boilers The gate-keepers allowed me to go on to Princes Landing-Stage I left my cabin, and helping myself with hands and feet through the billows Each player stakes one dollar, and draws one of the half or quarter hours: Here opened the pit containing the machinery of the paddle-wheels After twenty passages from England to America, one of which was marked Whist was impossible, for the tables glided from under the players hands The sea between us and the coast was of a dull green shade; there was a With what force must these wooden paddles strike the waves which are now The slate-coloured sea broke in great foamless billows The workmen were now hurriedly disembarking and clambering up the numerous First of all the anchor had to be raised The steamers course had been slightly altered in the night The fact is, these divisions are reckoned from noon to noon But special arrangements were necessary for storing away the cable in the In four days, at the latest, the Great Eastern must reach New York harbour; One would have taken her for a small island, hardly discernible in the He was a thin, nervous little man, with quick, restless eyes: a physiognomist A merchant-vessel or a man-of-war would have had no hesitation in manning The steersman standing on the bridge between the signal apparatus of the Friends exchanged quiet greetings; every one held a Prayer-book in his It was the reverend gentleman of whom I have before spoken a little It would have been well if the service had concluded with the reading; All these good people seemed to have hats and boots of a dazzling brightness On leaving the station, I went to the Adelphi Hotel When I went on deck, about seven oclock in the morning, the wind had freshened After each verse the congregation murmured the one following; the shrill Only at night, perhaps eluding her gaoler, she came out to bathe herself A profound silence reigned among the congregation; the officers occupied Her steel hull was so heavy that the davits to which it was attached bent This was done; but powerful as it was, this engine was found insuflficient Captain Anderson assuming the office of pastor on board, in the midst of Freed from their broken rope-bands, the capstan-bars flew in all directions The spectators hurried towards the unfortunate men, the wounded were taken The Great Eastern was announced to sail on the 20th of March The three masts in front are the fore-gigger and the foremast (both of Then, after having crossed a small triangular space at the bows The Great Eastern struck amidships, and, supported by no sail, rolled frightfully If the Great Eastern is not merely a nautical engine, but rather a microcosm His sermon was already prepared, the occasion was good, and he intended It is an immense depression of the land filled with water At last I reached the stern of the steam-ship, and the place I had already Her movable engine was first hoisted on board by means of windlasses of Liverpool, the first to the amount of 538,750 francs At half-past ten the Captain rose, and the service began; he read a chapter