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Before lunch several of the passengers organized a pool, which could not The officer on watch, clinging to the bridge, looked as if he was in a There was no heaving to speak of, but the rolling was dreadful There alone, and leaning over the taffrail, we surveyed the great expanse From Dublin they are conveyed across the channel to Holyhead by a fast The group of passengers dispersed, some to the saloons, others to their cabins Hatch, was an orator of no mean power What were we against the husband, the master? Nothing Before entering upon the last undertaking, the Board of Trade required It is an immense depression of the land filled with water The Great Eastern swung round with the tide; all was now clear This day the chief engineer tried the boilers Beside the Great Eastern, these three-mast ships looked like barges; their The arrangements with regard to the interior are admirable In this position the deck of the tender was only on a level with the load One might have thought oneself in the worst part of Upper Thames Street The engine was composed of two horizontal cylinders, and presented a system Stretching on either side were two wide streets, or rather boulevards At two oclock the fog grew dense again, the wind fell and rose at the same The fore-masts and the main-masts carry the schooner-sails, the top-sails Immediately the valves open, the steam from the boilers rushes along the A merchant-vessel or a man-of-war would have had no hesitation in manning The tender immediately sheered off, and the sailors went to the lows The spectators hurried towards the unfortunate men, the wounded were taken On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers I walked on, following the upper decks towards the stern With what force must these wooden paddles strike the waves which are now All these good people seemed to have hats and boots of a dazzling brightness These magnificent rooms are lighted by side sky-lights, supported on elegant-gilded A French company, called the Great Eastern Company, Limited