A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse With Stone: To Which Is Subjoined, an Appendix, Giving ... Point, Built Upon a Sand (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse With Stone: To Which Is Subjoined, an Appendix, Giving Some Account of the Lighthouse on the Spurn Point, Built Upon a Sand

The fourth Tear, finding that in the Winter the Sea had buried the Lantern at times, though above 60 Feet high; he cncompafl'cd the former Building with a new work, took down the upper part, and rail'ed it to 120 Feet high and yet in time of Storms the Sea appeared to fly 100 Feet higher than the Vane.

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