Lighthouse commission of France, buildings of, referred to, 61.
Lighthouse illumination, history of, sketched, 69-71.
Lighthouse, an iron, described, 204-206; on piles, 207.
Lighthouse keeper, the, his duties detailed, 276-279; in France, 285-288.
Lighthouses, early history of, 9-43; how administered, 49-61; their geographical distribution, 62-67; the illuminating apparatus of, 68-94; the skill required in their construction, 95; the conditions of their erection, 96; number of men required for, 97, 98, 102; their capability of resistance to wind and wave, 98; internal arrangements of, 99-102; duties of their keepers, 102-104; of Great Britain, 108-211; of France, 212-252; the auxiliaries of, 256-275; life in, described, 276-288.
Lights, variety of, 62, 63, 67; sea, 63; secondary, 64; harbour, 65; the leading five, 65, 66; their recent introduction, 66; danger of a too great multiplicity, 66, 67; a list of, 289-311.
Lightships, first instituted by Avery and Hamblin, 254, 255; described, 255-257; how managed, 257, 258; British and Irish, 258; of the United States, 259; their crews, 259-261; life on board, 261-263; a night on board a lightship, 312-314.
Lizard Point, lighthouses on, described, 197-199.
Longfellow, the poet, his piece on the lighthouse quoted, 279, 280.
Louis XIV. of France, anecdote of, 115, 116.
Lovet, Captain, his lease of the Eddystone rock, 113.
Lucan, the Roman poet, his reference to the pharos of Alexandria, 22.
Maplin Sands lighthouse described, 206, 207.
Marstrand, Sweden, revolving apparatus for illumination at, 71.
Michelet, M. Jules, on the Gulf of Gascony, 212; on Cordouan and its lighthouse, 218-221.
Montfaucon on Roman light-towers, 14, 15; on the pharos at Alexandria, 17, 18, 26-29; on the etymology of the word “pharos,” 18, 19.
Morlent, author of “Monographie du Havre,” his description of Sainte-Adresse, 225.
Needles Down, the, Isle of Wight, old lighthouse on, 97.
Needles Point, Isle of Wight, lighthouse on, erection recorded, 97, 189; described, 189-191.
New Caledonia, the lighthouse at described, 250, 251; inauguration of, 252.
Northern Lights, the commission of, its composition, 54, 55.
Oil, the, employed in lighthouses of Great Britain and France, 81.