Category: History - British
I. The Fire-towers of the Mediterranean, 9 II. The Pharos of Alexandria, 17 III. The “Tour d’Ordre” of Boulogne, 30 IV. The Tower at Dover, 38 V. The Colossus of Rhodes, 43
The life of a lighthouse-keeper is not without a certain monotony; but it must be greatly cheered by the reflection that it is devoted to a high and holy service. There is about...
18. CHAPTER III.In the arts of peace a noble rivalry exists between the sister kingdoms of Great Britain; and as England may boast in her Eddystone tower of a splendid work of science and phila...
16. CHAPTER I.The first lighthouse of a regular character erected on the shores of England seems to have been that of Lowestoft, in 1609. Among its successors we may refer to those of Hunstan...
14. CHAPTER III.It has very justly been said that the object of placing in a lighthouse an illuminating apparatus is, that, whether it be constructed of glass or of metal, it may _bend the rays...
21. CHAPTER VI.We propose, in the present chapter, to glance at a few of the best known pharoses which illuminate our home-waters, but without observing any particular order. Our description o...
12. CHAPTER I.From antiquity we return to our own time, with the view of examining the present condition of our coast-defences, so far as they include the lighthouse, the lightship, the beaco...
27. CHAPTER I.Lighthouses form the _first_ line of the coast defences which man raises for his protection against the fury of the ocean. But there are many parts of the coasts of every mariti...
15. CHAPTER IV.After having devoted so many pages to what we have called—perhaps somewhat fancifully—the _soul_ of the lighthouse, it becomes necessary to say a few words in reference to the _...
24. CHAPTER III.One of the most important of the French lighthouses is that whose brilliant fixed light radiates nightly over the vast and dangerous space comprised between the coast of Brittan...
19. CHAPTER IV.The full details which we have given of the erection of the Bell Rock Lighthouse will render unnecessary any elaborate account of the mode of construction of later edifices. The...
22. CHAPTER I.“Truly mysterious is the Channel, in that narrow gullet where it engulfs the waves of the North Sea. Violent are the waters of Brittany, as they eddy to and fro in the ravines o...
8. CHAPTER II.One of the most famous lighthouses of antiquity, as I have already pointed out, was the pharos of Alexandria, which ancient writers included among the Seven Wonders of the World...
28. CHAPTER II.To complete our account of the defences of our coast, we must refer to works of less pretension than lighthouses and lightships, and of less utility, though still of very consid...
23. CHAPTER II.Doux feux qui protégez et Thétis et la Seine, Sûrs et brillants rivaux des deux frères d’Hélène, Phares, je vous salue; assurez à jamais Le commerce opulent de l’heureuse Neustr...
7. CHAPTER I.We are apt to look upon the lighthouse as completely a modern invention, but a little reflection would convince us that the early navigators, in their arduous struggle against t...
9. CHAPTER III.Boulogne is the ancient _Bononia_ or _Gesoriacum_, “a naval place,” says Ptolemæus, “of the Morini,” and distant from the British coast, according to Pliny, about fifty _millia...
13. CHAPTER II.In reference to the military protection of our coasts, the civilian is frequently warned of the necessity of maintaining more than one “line of defence;” a similar necessity exi...
17. CHAPTER II.The motive which inspired the founder of the Smalls Lighthouse was of a higher order than those of most of his contemporaries. In erecting a warning light upon these dangerous r...
11. CHAPTER V.“Men receive with indifference from one another, and without examination, the traditions of past events, even of events connected with the history of their own country. Thus, fo...
10. CHAPTER IV.The summit of the lofty down at Dover, now crowned by the famous castle, with its Norman keep and towers, was used as a military post from a very remote antiquity. There can be...
20. CHAPTER V.The erection of the North Unst tower, completed in 1854, offered no difficulties comparable to those which tested the skill and perseverance of the builder of the Bell Rock; yet...
26. CHAPTER V.We have spoken of the patriarch of the French lighthouses, the venerable Tower of Cordova; it would be unfair to forget the youngest of the family, that of New Caledonia. Indepe...
25. CHAPTER IV.We must not take leave of French oceanic lighthouses—that is, of lighthouses built out at sea—without a brief reference to that of the Grand Barge d’Olonne. Situated on a rock o...
4. BOOK IV.I. The Tour de Cordouan, 212 II. The Lighthouses of Cape La Hève, 224 III. The Lighthouse of the Héaux of Bréhat, 233 IV. The Grand Barge d’Olonne, A.D. 1861, 245 V. The Lightho...
3. BOOK III.I. The Story of the Eddystone: A.D. 1696, 1706, 1759, 108 II. The Smalls Lighthouse, 133 III. The Bell Rock, A.D. 1807-1811, 139 IV. The Skerryvore Lighthouse, 171 V. North Unst...
1. BOOK I.I. The Fire-towers of the Mediterranean, 9 II. The Pharos of Alexandria, 17 III. The “Tour d’Ordre” of Boulogne, 30 IV. The Tower at Dover, 38 V. The Colossus of Rhodes, 43
6. BOOK VI.2. BOOK II.5. BOOK V.