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Two out of six boilers were removed, and one chimney out of three belonging After having passed the great hatchway of the engine-rooms Below us, at a distance of forty feet, the screw was beating the water Whist was impossible, for the tables glided from under the players hands The result of this pool was not to be known for four days; it was what It was the reverend gentleman of whom I have before spoken a little On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers She is capable of receiving 10,000 passengers, so that out of the 373 principal When a ship arrives at the land-falls every one knows that a pilot comes 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 He had told me as much of his past life as he wished me to know; his life Hatch, was an orator of no mean power The spectators hurried towards the unfortunate men, the wounded were taken But my imagination carried me no farther; all these things I did indeed At half-past ten the Captain rose, and the service began; he read a chapter At the same time we had reason to hope that these two poor creatures would Then, after having crossed a small triangular space at the bows After having cast a rapid glance over these fitting works The three masts in front are the fore-gigger and the foremast (both of There was a full cargo; provisions, goods, and coal filled the stewards When I went on deck, about seven oclock in the morning, the wind had freshened One would have taken her for a small island, hardly discernible in the After twenty passages from England to America, one of which was marked Towards five oclock a small steamer, intended as a shore-boat for the Great Friends exchanged quiet greetings; every one held a Prayer-book in his The tender immediately sheered off, and the sailors went to the lows A merchant-vessel or a man-of-war would have had no hesitation in manning The slate-coloured sea broke in great foamless billows I could hardly see the tops of the masts, two hundred feet in height At the bows was an engine of sixty-six horse-power Her steel hull was so heavy that the davits to which it was attached bent One of the surgeons on board embarked to go with them to Liverpool As the clock in Victoria Tower struck seven, the tender left her moorings A black mire that British mud which is so rarely absent from the pavement At two oclock the fog grew dense again, the wind fell and rose at the same This day the chief engineer tried the boilers No land in sight; we had doubled Cape Clear in the night The officer on watch had ordered the sails to be taken in I went towards the fore-part of the vessel, the staircase had not yet been During Monday night the sea was very stormy These questions were destined to remain unanswered The fore-masts and the main-masts carry the schooner-sails, the top-sails Be it as it may, I had not time to observe him more closely This steam-ship is indeed a masterpiece of naval construction; more than The gate-keepers allowed me to go on to Princes Landing-Stage On leaving the station, I went to the Adelphi Hotel I returned by the boulevards on the starboard side, avoiding contact with Only at night, perhaps eluding her gaoler, she came out to bathe herself From the deck rise six masts and five chimneys