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Excerpt from Boys' and Girls' Bookshelf, Vol. 15: Book of Wonders and Curious Things (Part 1) Her length-about 750 feet - exceeds that of two towering Skyscrapers placed one on top of the other; and her funnels, being 24 feet in diameter, would easily admit a couple of full Sized trolley - cars driven abreast throughout their whole length of 155 feet! Passengers taking their morning stroll on deck will understand that a circuit of the Ship three and a half times means covering almost exactly a mile. As the vessel lies on the ways, one obtains an admirable idea of her vastness. It is like looking up at one of the pyramids; only, instead of rising from a desert, the towering hull commands one of the busiest industrial hives of men. Stand on the forecastle in the very eyes of the levia than, and the ground is nearly 100 feet below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.