Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-09-07

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The EmmensIry Of the Great Eastern.
The novelty of the Great Eastern has
passed away, but the ship is, in itself, as
much a wonder as ever. She is now in
New York after her eighth voyage across
The Atlantic, and a writer in the New
York Herald gives an interesting sketch
Of her, from which we quote the following,
as giving better idea of her mammoth
proportions than can be had by a mere emu
meratiOn Of statistics regarding her
length, breadth, &C., &c.:
alike the Pyramids, she seems rather
great work Of nature than q thing made
with hands. Numbers in feet and inches
are of no assistance in the attempt to un-
derstand her size. Every link Of her
great cables weighs Y pounds; she carries
four thousand of such links, as much iron
Rs two hundred carmen's carts could car
Ty, forged into the single item Of chain
cable by iron tools There is one steam
engine Of sixty horse power whose only
business it is to manage these cables and
the hooks Gt the ends Of them. These
hooks--snchors, if you prefer that name
with which the great ship fumbles about
in the deep for the granite formations,
the ribs af an aniidiluvian world TO hold
fast by, were also made with tools and have
some weight Of their own. There are four
Of these. If one was cut into seven pieces,
each piece would be load for one Of the
large coal carts which go about our streets,
carrying, if the coal dealers don't lie two
thousand pounds apiece 0rit would take
Just forty-six shots of General Gilmore's
300-pounder to throw Uf the7o HuUnUrs
from Morris Island into Charleston city.
The four great anchors Of the Great East
ern would make one hundred and eighty
six of those pills. Oh, that they might
fall on the toes of JEFF. Davis.
"Besides the four anchors which we have
thus reduced to pills and popular sppreci-
stioB, the Great Eastern has six other an
cbors for ordinary occasions, and not SO
large.
"SimilAr heavy jobs to that of the an
ehOrs are divided among the different steam
engines on board. For, in addition to her
crews of engineers and sailors, this Great
Eastern has complete crew Of steam en-
gines These fellows are not often mus
tered on deck but they are kept in none
the less excellent order for that They
number just thirty-three. Now, thirty
three steam engines not only require a
very large number Of tools to make them,
but, being made, they can do an immense
amount Of work. They do all sorts of
chores-lift heavy weights, pump water
and so on. They make themselves gene
rally useful. We number with the rest the
main engine by means Of which this great
mass of material is made TO osey tbs least
impulse Of her masters will, and to become
tractable as 3 spaniel-engines by means
Of which the gresI ship is made manage,
able as 3 little yacht"
within the ship several hotels have
been built al which the prices Of board
vary 10 suit the public purse. In all the
accommodations are excellent; good bed
rooms, large psrlors and the best Of attend
snce. Besides these hotels there are two or
three private houses for the accommoda-
tion Of families, with nice suits Of rooms
dining rooms, sitting rooms and bedeham-
bers in every respect complete. Recently
the captain explored some hitherto undis-
covered districts in the ship, and erected
three excellent baths, and now passengers
I puA N9 UloouAuOudtGu Win SAT- VI AEGbu
water baths, hot or cold, at any hour.
| There yet remain some extensive waste
districts in the ship which will be expIor-
ed and settled in due time, and be made to
conduos to the comfort of passengers as
new Improvements suggest themselves.
One might cross the Atlantic in this ship
and hardly know that be was at sea, so
complete are the arrangements for the
comfort Of passengers, snd so easy are the
ships movements"