Lighthouses and Lightships: A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and OrganizationNelson, 1878 - 326 من الصفحات |
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15 miles 30 seconds 9 miles Alan Stevenson ancient apparatus artificers base beacon Bell Rock Lighthouse boat Boulogne Breakwater building built buoy Cape catoptric channel Chicken Rock circular tower coast colour completed construction Cordouan Cork Harbour course dangerous dioptric distance Eddystone EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE edifice elevation engineer erected feet in diameter fire fixed green light fixed light fixed light gas fixed red light fixed white light flashing floor French Fresnel gale glass Harbour illumination inches iron Island Isle keepers labours lamp land lantern lenses light-keepers light-room lightage Lightship mariner masonry navigation night pharos Pier Pier-head placed Point port rays reef reflectors rendered revolving every minute revolving light Roman Sand says seamen ship shore side Skerryvore Smeaton solid South SOUTH FORELAND LIGHTHOUSE stone lighthouse Strabo summit tide timber tion Trinity House Unst vessel visible 10 miles visible 15 visible 9 waves weather wind
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الصفحة 143 - The wind hath blown a gale all day; At evening it hath died away. On the deck the Rover takes his stand; So dark it is, they see no land. Quoth Sir Ralph, "It will be lighter soon, For there is the dawn of the rising moon.
الصفحة 143 - Sir Ralph the Rover sailed away, He scoured the seas for many a day ; And now grown rich with plundered store, He steers his course for Scotland's shore. So thick a haze o'erspreads the sky They cannot see the sun on high; The wind hath blown a gale all day, At evening it hath died away. On the deck the Rover takes his stand, So dark it is they see no land. Quoth Sir Ralph, "It will be lighter soon For there is the dawn of the rising Moon.
الصفحة 142 - The ship was as still as she could be ; Her sails from heaven received no motion ; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape rock ; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape belL The...
الصفحة 248 - A speechless wrath, that rises and subsides In the white lip and tremor of the face. And as the evening darkens, lo ! how bright, Through the deep purple of the twilight air, Beams forth the sudden radiance of its light With strange, unearthly...
الصفحة 144 - Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair, He curst himself in his despair ; The waves rush in on every side, The ship is sinking beneath the tide. But even in his dying fear One dreadful sound could the Rover hear, A sound as if with the Inchcape bell, The fiends below were ringing his knell.
الصفحة 142 - Had placed that bell on the Inchcape Rock; On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. When the rock was hid by the surge's swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous rock And blessed the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
الصفحة 143 - Ralph, the rover, walked his deck, And he fixed his eye on the darker speck. He felt the cheering power of spring — . ..„ . It made him whistle, it made him sing; His heart was mirthful to excess; But the rover's mirth was wickedness. His eye was on the bell and float : Quoth he, "My men, put out the boat; And row me to the Inchcape rock, And I'll plague the priest of Aberbrothok.
الصفحة 140 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O-er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night: The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail.
الصفحة 249 - A new Prometheus, chained upon the rock, Still grasping in his hand the fire of Jove, It does not hear the cry, nor heed the shock, But hails the mariner with words of love.
الصفحة 249 - They come forth from the darkness, and their sails Gleam for a moment only in the blaze. And eager faces, as the light unveils, Gaze at the tower, and vanish while they gaze. The mariner remembers when a child, On his first voyage, he saw it fade and sink ; And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on for evermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable...