The Eddystone lighthouse in a storm (1833)
G. P. Hearder
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SC0726
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CD 12 DVD 2
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Tomlins, B. THE EDDYSTONE LIGHT-HOUSE, A Poem: TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, An Historical Account of every remarkable Occurrence that has transpired since the FIRST LIGHT HOUSE was erected ON THE EDDYSTONE ROCK, 1696. London: J. Bailey, 1824. p. 34.It now remained only to wait for a storm to try the durability of the building. The hard weather of 1759, 1760, and 1761, appeared to make no impression. The year 1762 was ushered in by a tempest of the greatest violence, the rage of which was so great, that one of those who had been used to fortel [sic] its downfal, [sic] was heard to say, "if the Eddystone Light-house be now standing, it will stand to the day of Judgement," and in reality, from this time, any doubt of its strength and solidity has been so entirely out of men's minds, that whatever storms have happened since, no inquiry has ever been made concerning it. So confident was a very intelligent friend of Mr. Smeaton's of its durability, that he wrote to him, that he might for ever rid himself of any uneasy thought of the house, as to its danger from wind or sea.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Wood engr
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76x121mm
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Dates
1833