. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . any others employed,none could have felt their responsibility more keenly than WesleyP. Dutton and George Reed, the latter of Quincy, who superin-tended the selection of the stone. Not the smallest detail of preparation escaped the watchfuleye of Captain Alexander; and down to the very pulley-blocksof the derricks, with their specially forged straps, everything wasconstructed with a view to prevent the slightest mishap. These WRECKS AND MINOT LIGHT. 477 derricks were the pride of the sparmakers art; and the perfect-running, flawles
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . any others employed,none could have felt their responsibility more keenly than WesleyP. Dutton and George Reed, the latter of Quincy, who superin-tended the selection of the stone. Not the smallest detail of preparation escaped the watchfuleye of Captain Alexander; and down to the very pulley-blocksof the derricks, with their specially forged straps, everything wasconstructed with a view to prevent the slightest mishap. These WRECKS AND MINOT LIGHT. 477 derricks were the pride of the sparmakers art; and the perfect-running, flawless pulley-blocks of lignum vitse were from the care-ful hands of Richard Bourne, one of the model builders, who firstlaid out the circumference of the ground plot at the ledge. , now a resident of Clinton, Mass., is still hale and hearty,and enjoys with a keen relish the recollection of this splendidundertaking of his native town. The Quincy cutters avowed that such chiseling had never leftthe hand of man; and a closer look into the manner of joining. Minot Lighthouse, half an old photograph. the tower will prove that the need was of the first order. Thefirst few courses bear no semblance to regular masonry. Thelines of junction formed by the juxtaposition of the various rock-levels trace out the most erratic curvings, and suggest a snarl ofwire loosely confined within a circle. As the courses grew, how-ever, clearing first one and then another of the points of rock,they began to take shape and to admit of a radial arrangement, 478 HISTORY OF COHASSET. until, reaching the third, the last of. the bed rock was covered,and the courses proceeded with regularity and greater it is considered that each stone must be cut to fit its neigh-bors above, below, and at either side, and exactly conform to thenext inner row upon the same level; that eight iron piles, taper-ing as they ascended, must be allowed for in certain of the stones ;and that those of the in
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