Smeaton And Lighthouses A Popular Biography With An Historical

Chapter 3

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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