. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. stablishment, and this is twenty-one feet in dianutt-r, domed,and forty feet high, and lighted by eight windows. There is an eye in the domethrough which is seen the ornamental roof of the room above, and that is fourteen feetdiameter and twenty-seven feet high. This is used by the lightkeepers as a watchroona. Over it rises an apartment, which is immediately under the ligiitroom, used forholding sufficient fuel for one nights consumption, and capab
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. stablishment, and this is twenty-one feet in dianutt-r, domed,and forty feet high, and lighted by eight windows. There is an eye in the domethrough which is seen the ornamental roof of the room above, and that is fourteen feetdiameter and twenty-seven feet high. This is used by the lightkeepers as a watchroona. Over it rises an apartment, which is immediately under the ligiitroom, used forholding sufficient fuel for one nights consumption, and capable itself of being convertedinto a place for the exhibition of a light in case of repairs being required to any extentiu the main light room, which, as we have said, is immediately over it, and is sur-rounded by a balcony and circular stone parapet. The height from the floor to the topnf the cupola of the original lantern or light room was 17 feet, and being unglazed, thesmoke was carried out on either side in the direction of tlie wind. The roof, moreover,formed a kind of chimney in the form of a spire, with a ball. The height. GLOSSARY. 13C7 of tho light room, which was entirely of stone, was thirty-one feet from the light roomfloor to the ball on the top of the spire. The fuel first used for the light was oak, afterwhich pit coal was introduced ; but in modern times lamps and reflectors have succeededtho last, and the light is now seen at a proper distance. The attempt to make lighthouses resemble columns is intolerable; they shouldpossess, according to the different situations, a character peculiar to themselves : hencethe application of a column for the purpose is the worst of abuses. The ISorth Forelandliglithouse, whose plan is polygonal, would be a good example had the details been pro-perly attended to in the design. LiGKTixQ. The quantity of daylight admitted by windows and skylights into an apart-ment. The superficial area of light may be equal to one-ha
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