Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 646
t on. Fig. 304 is a picture of this noble lighthouse,with the British fleet passing close to it, during a furious gale on the 22ndof October, 1859, or exactly a century after the completion of the structure.The incident of the man in the water, which occupies the foreground, is notan imaginary one,… … The Eddysto7ie Li^Jiihoiise, *Smeatons tower proving unsafe, has since been taken down and replaced, in 1882, by onefrom Mr. Douglass design. LIGUTIIOUSES. 595 •open order throughout the night. They wore in at dawn, came up theChannel in line of battle, steamed into Portland, and took up their…
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