Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 647
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… … Fig. 304.— The Eddy stone in a Storm. The lighthouse tower on the Bell Rock is 100 ft. hign, 42 ft. in diametei-at the base, and 15 ft. at the top. The Inchcape Rock, on which it isplaced, is the scene of Southeys ballad of Ralph the Rover, and theulighthouse here is one of the most serviceable on…
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