CHAPTER XV. THE LIZARD 163 CHAPTER XVI. THE WOLF, THE LAND’S END, AND THE LONGSHIPS 176 CHAPTER XVII. THE SCILLIES 190 CHAPTER XVIII. LIGHTHOUSES ON THE WESTERN COAST 204 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE THE FIRST LIGHTHOUSE AT DUNGENESS _Frontispiece_ THE EDDYSTONE MEDAL, 1757 7 THE BELL ROCK LIGHTHOUSE 16 THE PHAROS, ALEXANDRIA 19 ANCIENT COAST-LIGHT 38 OUTER FARNE LIGHTHOUSE 45 GRACE DARLING AND HER FATHER ON THE WAY TO THE WRECK 49 GRACE DARLING 51 MODEL OF THE FIRST LIGHTSHIP 70 MODEL OF A LIGHTSHIP BUILT IN 1790 73 PACK OF PLAYING CARDS DESIGNED BY WINSTANLEY 116 WINSTANLEY’S EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE 129 SILVER MODEL OF EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE AFTER ALTERATION 134 RUDYERD’S EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE 141 THE EDDYSTONE BUILT BY SMEATON 149 SMEATON’S MODE OF DOVETAILING THE STONES 151 SMEATON’S CHANDELIER 154 SECTION OF THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE BUILT BY SMEATON 156 THE PRESENT EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE 159 WOLF ROCK LIGHTHOUSE 178 LONGSHIPS LIGHTHOUSE 182 THE WRECKER 186 ST. AGNES LIGHTHOUSE, SCILLY ISLES 193 THE BISHOP’S ROCK LIGHTHOUSE 202 THE SMALLS LIGHTHOUSE 207 LIGHTHOUSE AT HOLYHEAD 218 [Illustration: THE BELL ROCK LIGHTHOUSE.] CHAPTER I ANCIENT AND MEDIAEVAL LIGHTHOUSES ‘The good old Abbot of Aberbrothock 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.