Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, the French writer, 226-228. Scilly Isles, wrecks on the, 196. Scotland, coast of, administration of lights on, 139-141. Scott, Sir Walter, quoted, 145. Sea-birds as lighthouse signals, 107. Serapion, the, historical memoranda concerning, 266, 269. Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, wrecked on Scilly Isles, 196. Sigeum, pharos erected on the promontory of, 13. Skerries, the, Stevenson’s lighthouse on, 141, 142. Skerryvore Rock, the, its position, 171; danger and desolation, 172; Mr. Alan Stevenson’s inspection of, 172, 174. Skerryvore Lighthouse, the story of its erection, 174-180; its illuminating apparatus described, 180. Smalls lighthouse, the, its founder, 133, 134; its engineer, 134; and adventure of, 134-137; a painful incident connected with, 137, 138. Smeaton, John, his career sketched, 119, 120; his erection of a lighthouse on Eddystone described, 121-129. Smiles, Mr. Samuel, cited, 110, 119, 122, 129. Sostrates, architect of the pharos of Alexandria, story of, 17, 18. South Foreland, lighthouse on the, 282. South Stock lighthouse, warning apparatus at, 107. Southey, the poet, his ballad of “Ralph the Rover,” 147-149. St. Agnes Light, the, mentioned, 130. Start Point, lights at, referred to, 130; Stevenson’s erection of a beacon at, 142-144. St. Catherine’s Down, old lighthouse on, 192; proposed new lighthouse on, 97, 192. St. Catherine’s Point, lighthouse on, referred to, 192, 193. Stevenson, Mr. Thomas, the engineer, quoted, 66, 72, 76, 85, 88, 89; his holophotal system of illumination, 91, 92, 94; his marine dynamometer, 98; his suggestions for lighting beacons and buoys, 169, 170. Stevenson, Mr. Alan, quoted, 103, 104, 121; his inspection of the Skerryvore Rock, 172-174; erection of a lighthouse on the Skerryvore, 174-180; account of the Skerryvore quoted from, 172, _passim_. Stevenson, Mr. Robert, his erection of a lighthouse on the Skerries, 141, 142; the story of his Bell Rock lighthouse, 149-164; his erection of a beacon on Carr Rock, 168; quoted from, 142, _passim_. St. Hilaire, the church of, its conflagration described by Gregory of Tours, 19. Strabo, the historian, his reference to the pharos at Capio, 14; his account of the Colossus of Rhodes, 44; his mention of the Pillar of Hercules, 265, 266. Suetonius, the historian, cited, 13. Sunderland, the lighthouse at, its erection described, 182-186. Teulère, the engineer, his studies and inventions in lighthouse illumination, 70, 71. _Thames_, the, steamer, wrecked on Scilly Isles, 196. Thetis, the ocean-goddess, legend of, 12. Thucydides, the historian, quoted, 43. Tithonus, legend of, 12. Tour de Cordouan, lamp in, described by Mr. Stevenson, 88.