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CHAPTER I.
Voyage in the Great Western Steam-ship from Bristol to
New York.
1838.
ON the 8th of September 1838, we sailed from
the wharf at Bristol in the Cambrian steam-boat, and
found ourselves amid an immense multitude of men,
women, and children, dogs, bales, bags, porters, and
musicians. We were cheered by the strains-not
very dulcet-of a harp and a violin, as we descended
the stream of the muddy, yet romantic Avon. In
sailing down the river, we saw two persons shoot
across the gulf, of which it forms the narrow bottom,
in a car, slung on an iron bar 785 feet in length, and
170 feet above our heads. It is used by the workmen
now engaged in constructing a suspension-bridge from
cliff to cliff across the stream.
In an hour and a half, we were on board of the
Great Western, lying at anchor in King-Poad. -Her
first appearance disappointed us; for we had heard
much of her great dimensions. When compared with
the vessels lying near her, she was seen to be very
long, but neither remarkably broad nor high. This
was her third voyage outward. She was launched on
VOL. I. A
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/41/?rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.