Smeaton and Lighthouses A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel
CHAPTER III.
HISTORY OF THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE TO THE TIME OF SMEATON.
The Eddystone Rocks--Their Situation and dangerous Character--The first Lighthouse by Winstanley--Its Progress and Completion--Its awful Fate--Rudyerd's Lighthouse--Description of--Its Destruction by Fire--Smeaton appointed to construct a New Edifice 21