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At Princes Landing-Stage, a small tug in the service of the Great Eastern When a ship arrives at the land-falls every one knows that a pilot comes I, with head upturned, and my body thrown back, surveyed the wheels of It was a Canadian, the Honourable MacAlpine, who undertook the management I was going to reply to this wise observation, when there was a loud cry The next day I went down towards the basins which form a double line of The engine-rooms were full of steam; leaning over the hatchway What were we against the husband, the master? Nothing Once more the partitions began creaking, and again the luggage made its She is capable of receiving 10,000 passengers, so that out of the 373 principal This steam-ship is indeed a masterpiece of naval construction; more than At the base they measure 43 inches in diameter, and the largest (the main-mast) With what force must these wooden paddles strike the waves which are now Freed from their broken rope-bands, the capstan-bars flew in all directions This costly operation accomplished, a long crack in her exterior plates First of all the anchor had to be raised The thickness of the fog was so intense that the officers on the bridge This tall fellow was the exact type of an English officer; his figure was The Great Eastern draws 30 feet of water with a cargo of 28,500 tons If the Great Eastern is not merely a nautical engine, but rather a microcosm Thus, in the midst of the fog, officers and sailors were obliged to keep But now, what was most important, was to prevent another meeting between The announcement of the conference was received very favourably by the The giant could have hoisted these ships on its davits like shore-boats Scarcely had we started, when I saw on the quay a tall young man The tender immediately sheered off, and the sailors went to the lows Near me stood a traveller, who frequently shrugged his shoulders impatiently The steamers course had been slightly altered in the night It was an inconvenient position for the wheels, for the paddles not being Everything was finished by evening; not a trace of mud was visible on the Seen from the side, these wheels looked narrow and contracted The tender had disembarked her crew; I stepped on to the fluted iron steps To weigh anchor under these circumstances required considerable exertion She alone could store on board the 2100 miles of metallic wire weighing Fabian was looking at the magic of the waves without speaking They cause accidents which it is impossible to avoid, and a collision at The workmen were now hurriedly disembarking and clambering up the numerous One might have thought oneself in the worst part of Upper Thames Street Of these six masts, supported by shrouds and metallic back-stays, the second Towards five oclock a small steamer, intended as a shore-boat for the Great Two out of six boilers were removed, and one chimney out of three belonging But in this respect the steward knew no more than I did, and he left me These questions were destined to remain unanswered We had no doubt as to the identity of the young woman; it was Ellen All these good people seemed to have hats and boots of a dazzling brightness The water from the skies and sea mingled in a dense fog I walked on, following the upper decks towards the stern Before lunch several of the passengers organized a pool, which could not A French company, called the Great Eastern Company, Limited On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers