Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 495
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.… … tact for centuries. The giant statue known as the Colossus, atRhodes, is supposed to have been used as a beacon and light-house,— the spread of the legs of that great figure of Apolloindicating the harbor entrance by day, while a fire burnedin the palm of his uplifted colossal hand at night.…
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