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Lighthouses and Lightships

by W. H. Davenport Adams

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — The Fire-Towers of the Mediterranean
  3. 3Chapter II — The Pharos of Alexandria
  4. 4Chapter III — The “Tour D’Ordre” of Boulogne
  5. 5Chapter IV — The Tower at Dover
  6. 6Chapter V — The Colossus of Rhodes
  7. 7Chapter I — How They Are Administered
  8. 8Chapter II — Geographical Distribution of Lighthouses
  9. 9Chapter III — The Illuminating Apparatus of Lighthouses
  10. 10Chapter IV — The Interior of a Lighthouse
  11. 11Chapter I — The Story of the Eddystone: A.D. 1696, 1706, 1759
  12. 12Chapter II — The Smalls Lighthouse
  13. 13Chapter III — The Bell Rock, A.D. 1807–1811
  14. 14Chapter IV — The Skerryvore Lighthouse
  15. 15Chapter V — North Unst, 1854 — Sunderland, 1841
  16. 16Chapter VI — Lighthouses on the English Coast
  17. 17Chapter I — The Tour de Cordouan
  18. 18Chapter II — The Lighthouses of Cape la Heve. A.D. 1774
  19. 19Chapter III — The Lighthouse of the Heaux of Brehat. A.D. 1836–1840
  20. 20Chapter IV — The Grand Barge D’Olonne. A.D. 1861
  21. 21Chapter V — The Lighthouses of Walde, the Enfant Perdu, and New Cal…
  22. 22Chapter I — Floating Lights: Lightships
  23. 23Chapter II — Landmarks, Beacons, and Buoys
  24. 24Chapter I — The Lighthouse-Keepers
  25. 25Appendix — A List of Lights on the British and Irish Coasts
  26. 26II — A Night in a Lightship

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