The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . Between the Eddystone and the Bell-rock Light-houses, there is a considerable degree of similarity;it is acknowledged, indeed, that the idea of thelatter was derived from the Eddystone Light-house, which had been erected by the celebratedCivil Engineer, John Smeaton, esq. in the latterpart of George the Seconds reign. Upon the Ed-dystone rocks, which are situated in the EnglishChannel, at about fourteen miles from Ply-m
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . Between the Eddystone and the Bell-rock Light-houses, there is a considerable degree of similarity;it is acknowledged, indeed, that the idea of thelatter was derived from the Eddystone Light-house, which had been erected by the celebratedCivil Engineer, John Smeaton, esq. in the latterpart of George the Seconds reign. Upon the Ed-dystone rocks, which are situated in the EnglishChannel, at about fourteen miles from Ply-mouth, and directly fronting the entrance of PlymouthSound;—there had been two Lighthouses builtprior to that which now breasts the waves on thesame reef. The first was designed by Mr. HenryWinstanley, a gentleman of Littlebury, in Essex ;whose genius for mechanism had been displayedby various ingenious inventions. His was a poly-gonal building of stone, about 100 feet high, whichwas commenced in the year 1696, and finished in1700. That edifice was entirely swept away by thewaves, during the tremendous storm which desolatedthe shores of Great Britain, on the nig
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