Chapter VII: Marine Constructions

Lighthouses.--The Eddystone.--Winstanley's Lighthouse, 1696.--The
Storm of 1703.--Rudyerd's Lighthouse destroyed by Fire in 1755.--
Singular Death of one of the Lighthouse Men.--Anecdote of Louis XIV.
--Smeaton.--Bell Rock Lighthouse.--History of the Erection of
Skerryvore Lighthouse.--Illumination of Lighthouses.--The Breakwater
at Cherbourg.--Liverpool Docks.--The Tubular Bridge over the Menai
Straits.--The Sub-oceanic Mine of Botallack. 80

PART II.

THE INHABITANTS OF THE SEA.