The Sea and Its Living Wonders A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

CHAPTER VII.

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MARINE CONSTRUCTIONS.

Lighthouses.--The Eddystone.--Winstanley's Lighthouse, 1696.--The Storm of 1703.--Rudyerd's Lighthouse destroyed by Fire in 1755.-- Singular Death of one of the Lighthouse Men.--Anecdote of Louis XIV. --Smeaton.--Bell Rock Lighthouse.--History of the Erection of Skerryvore Lighthouse.--Illumination of Lighthouses.--The Breakwater at Cherbourg.--Liverpool Docks.--The Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits.--The Sub-oceanic Mine of Botallack. 80