London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 303
d to such heavy seas as the Eddystone, the surf in a storm mounts to thelights, which are 100 ft. above the ordinary level of the sea. At such times,the column is felt to tremble when struck by the huge mass of rolling waters;and the keepers, perched like two sea-mews on the top of a beacon staff,… … Fig. 118. isa section of Mr. Browns proposed 118 metallic lighthouse : it is 90 ft. hii;h, U ft. in diameterat the bottom, and 4 ft. at the thmncst part. Thelower half, called the base, is in four |)ieces, eachpiece consisting of a portion of a hollow cone (or pa-raboloid), wider below than above,…
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