CHAPTER II.

BELL ROCK LIGHTHOUSE.

Resolves to practise as a Civil Engineer--Journals--Reports-- Design for the Bell Rock Lighthouse--Improvements on Smeaton’s design--Application to Parliament for Act in 1802--Act of Parliament passed in 1806--Works begun in 1807--Tender breaks adrift--Life in the floating light--Boating between the lightship and the rock--Anxiety for workmen--Sunday work--Life in the Barrack or Beacon--Visits the Eddystone in 1813 and 1818--Sir Walter Scott’s visit to the Bell Rock 12