Lives of the Engineers ...: Harbours, lighthouses, bridges. Smeaton and Rennie. New and rev. ed. 1874
J. Murray, 1874 - Engineers
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Page 220 - Pennant's remark that he remembered it " a deep hollow road, and full of sloughs, with here and there a ragged house, the lurking-place of cut-throats ; insomuch," he adds, " that I never was taken that way by night in my hackney-coach to a worthy uncle's, who gave me lodgings in his house in George Street, but I went in dread the whole way.
Page 282 - It is reported in old times, upon the saide rock there was a bell, fixed upon a tree or timber, which rang continually, being moved by the sea, giving notice to the saylers of the danger. This bell or...
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Page 100 - Even in summer," wrote Winstanley, the builder of the first lighthouse, " the weather would at times prove so bad that for ten or fourteen days together the sea would be so raging about these rocks, caused by outwinds and the running of the ground seas coming from the main ocean, that although the weather should seem and be most calm in other places, yet here it would mount and fly more than 200 feet.
Page 22 - We were then obliged to lie upon our oars till the captain's boat went on board, and returned from the ship with a packet of letters. We were afterwards rowed a long league in a rough sea, against wind and tide, before we reached the harbour, where we landed, benumbed with cold, and the women excessively sick ; from our landing-place we were obliged to walk very near a mile to the inn where we purposed to lodge, attended by six or seven men and women, bare-legged, carrying our baggage.
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