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An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House Including the Details of the Erection and Peculiar Structure of That Edifice; to Which Is Prefixed a Historical View of the Institution and Progress of the Northern Light-Houses
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Title: An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House
Including the Details of the Erection and Peculiar Structure of That Edifice; to Which Is Prefixed a Historical View of the Institution and Progress of the Northern Light-Houses
Author: Robert Stevenson
Release Date: March 5, 2015 [eBook #48414]
Language: English
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BELL ROCK LIGHT HOUSE
DURING A STORM FROM THE NORTH EAST.
Drawn by J. M. W. Turner R. A.
Engraved by J. Horsburgh.
AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
BELL ROCK LIGHT-HOUSE,
INCLUDING THE
DETAILS OF THE ERECTION AND PECULIAR STRUCTURE
OF THAT EDIFICE.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A
HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE INSTITUTION AND PROGRESS
OF THE
NORTHERN LIGHT-HOUSES.
ILLUSTRATED WITH TWENTY-THREE ENGRAVINGS.
DRAWN UP BY DESIRE OF
THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE NORTHERN LIGHT-HOUSES,
BY
ROBERT STEVENSON,
CIVIL ENGINEER;
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH;
MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF SCOTISH ANTIQUARIES, OF THE WERNERIAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY,
AND OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;
ENGINEER TO THE NORTHERN LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD, AND TO THE CONVENTION
OF ROYAL BOROUGHS OF SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH;
HURST, ROBINSON & CO. 90. CHEAPSIDE; AND JOSIAH TAYLOR, 50. HIGH HOLBORN,
LONDON.
1824.
TO
THE KING.
SIRE,
It is with much diffidence that the author now lays before Your Majesty, an Account of the arduous national undertaking of erecting a Light-house on the Bell Rock,—a sunk reef, lying about eleven miles from the shore, and so situated as to have long proved an object of dread to mariners on the eastern coast of Scotland, especially when making for the Friths of Forth and Tay.
This edifice being of the utmost consequence to the safety of Your Majesty’s Ships of War upon the North Sea station, and of the commercial shipping of this part of the empire, he presumes to hope for Your Majesty’s favourable acceptance of his work. From the known partiality, also, of Your Majesty for naval excursions, which so recently led the Royal Squadron within a comparatively short distance of the Bell Rock Light-house, in the course of Your Majesty’s most gracious Visit to your ancient Kingdom of Scotland, he flatters himself that Your Majesty may feel an additional interest in the subject of this volume.
The Introduction to this work brings generally under Your Majesty’s notice, the important labours of the Scottish Light-house Board, appointed by an act of the 26th Parliament of Your Majesty’s illustrious Father. Since that period, Light-house stations have been partially extended over the whole northern shores of Your Majesty’s British dominions, from Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, to the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, including in this circuit the Hebrides, and Orkney and Shetland Islands. Much, however, still remains to be done; and the Board is gradually proceeding, as the state of its funds will permit, in placing additional Sea-Lights on certain intermediate points of the coast.
It cannot fail to be gratifying to Your Majesty to learn, as the result of the exertions of this Board, that the mariner may now navigate those regions with a degree of security and confidence quite unknown to Your Majesty’s Royal Ancestor James the Fifth, when he sailed around this coast in the 16th century, or even, at a recent period, to Your Majesty’s Royal Brother William Henry Duke of Clarence, when in early life he traversed those seas.
With unfeigned sentiments of loyalty and attachment, the author subscribes himself,
Your Majesty’s
Most devoted Subject and Servant,
ROBERT STEVENSON.
THE
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
Historical Narrative of the Institution of the Board of Commissioners, and Progress made in the Erection of the Northern Light-houses.