Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 494
an wickedness used it as a means fortheir destruction. Bands of robbers, or, as theycame to be called, wreckers, would hidethemselves somewhere near the haven soughtby a richly laden vessel, and after overpower-ing the fire-keepers would extinguish the bea-con-fire on the night on which the ship… … A SCREW-PILE OCEAN LIGHTHOUSE ON FOWEY ROCK, FLORIDA. the robber band would plunder the wreck andmake off with the booty. The Mediterranean Sea was the great cradleof commerce, and some of the ancient beacon-towers at the entrance to its harbors stood in- 482 THE LIGHTS THAT GUIDE IN THE NIGHT.…
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