Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 759
hat are very wide andintricate, like the Delaware bay; the fourth, fifthand sixth-order lights are usually simple lanterns,marking the shoals, wharves and other prominentpoints in smaller bays and rivers. They are also distinguished more exactly in an-other way. In seme instances the lights are… … LIGHT-HOUSE AT THE THIMBLE SHOAL, HAMPTON ROADS, VIRGINIA exhibiting each color alternately, or varying asteady white flame with a crimson flash. The dis-tinctions are so decided and numerous that thelook-out at the mast-head can tell in an instantwhich light it is that he sees. The principal…
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