The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 50
he stability of anymass of masonry would beseriously endangered. Manybanks oft our coasts are likethe Goodwin Sands, which,although when dry scarcelyretain the print of a horse shoof, will, when covered bythe sea, swallow up the lar-gest ship, and are moreover insuch exposed situations thatno solid… … Fig. 6. conspicuous and permanent marks upon them becomes an object ofthe highest importance to navigation. But nothing of the natureof a lighthouse upon a submarine sandbank was ever proposedprior to the year 1834, the project till then being considered ex-tremely hazardous, if not impossible. The…
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