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Chapter II: Part I: Account of Skerryvore Lighthouse

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Introduction -- Constitution of the Lighthouse Board -- Lights
established since 1821 -- Improvements in the mode of
illumination -- Dioptric Lights -- Beacons and Buoys, 9

CHAPTER I.

Topographic notice of the Skerryvore Rock, 19

CHAPTER II.

Preliminary arrangements and works, including survey of the rocks,
and opening of quarries from 1834 to 1837 -- Survey of the
Skerryvore rocks -- Disadvantages of Tyree -- Pier and workyard at
Hynish, Tyree -- Quarries at Hynish -- Skerryvore Committee
appointed, 37

CHAPTER III.

On the construction of Lighthouse Towers, 45

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