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addition apparatus base beacon Bell Board boat Boston bottom building built buoy caisson carried charge close coast commenced completed concrete consisted construction cost course covered cylinder danger diameter difficulty distance district driven engineer entirely erected established feet five flashes floating floor force foundation four give harbor height hundred important inches iron Island keepers laid landing lantern latter lens light light-house low water lower mark masonry material means miles moored nearly necessary officers piles placed position possible prevent protection reached receive reef River rock sand season secured seen shoal shore shows side solid soon spring standing station stone storm structure supplies surface taken temporary thirty tide tion tower United upper various vessels waves weather wind
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Page 33 - the breakers roar? For methinks we should be near the shore.' 'Now where we are I cannot tell, But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell.
Page 32 - And he fixed his eye on the darker speck. He felt the cheering power of spring ; It made him whistle, it made him sing : His heart was mirthful to excess, But the Rover's mirth was wickedness. His eye was on the Inchcape float ; Quoth he, " My men, put out the boat, And row me to the Inchcape Rock, And I'll plague the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
Page 33 - Sir Ralph the Rover sailed away; He scoured the seas for many a day: And now, grown rich with plundered store. He steers his course for Scotland's shore. So thick a haze o'erspreads the sky, They cannot see the sun on high: The wind hath blown a gale all day; At evening it hath died away.
Page 32 - Had placed that Bell on the Inchcape Rock ; On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. When the Rock was hid by the surge's swell, The mariners heard the warning Bell ; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
Page 32 - No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea: The ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell.
Page 195 - House" shall mean the master, wardens and assistants of the guild, fraternity, or brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond, in the county of Kent...
Page 33 - On the deck the Rover takes his stand ; So dark it is they see no land. Quoth Sir Ralph, " It will be lighter soon, For there is the dawn of the rising moon.
Page 115 - ... thing away, and of the old dwelling not one stone was left upon another. The new dwelling was flooded, and the windows had to be secured to prevent the violence of the spray from breaking them in. As the tide came, the sea rose higher and higher, till the only endurable places were the light towers. If they stood, we were saved, otherwise our fate was only too certain. But for some reason, I know not why, I had no misgivings, and went on with my work as usual. For four weeks, owing to rough weather,...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Ancient and Modern Light-houses |
| Author | David Porter Heap |
| Publisher | Ticknor, 1888 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 1, 2007 |
| Length | 220 pages |
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