Arthur, Port, 214, 217 _Assyrian_, the, wreck, 164 Astoria, 13, 185, 188, 193 Auckland coastline, 236, 237, 238 harbour, 238 Islands, 239 Auer, Dr. von, the incandescent mantle, 47-48 Australia: lighthouses of, 229-39; unattended lighthouses, 283 Austria, lighthouses, 48 Bache, General Hartmann, 63; Brandywine Shoal light, 200-201 “Back lights,” 20 Ballantyne, A., the Tillamook Rock lighthouse, 185-95 Ballycastle, 313 Baltic Sea, unattended lighthouses of the, 274, 278, 291 Bar lightship, Mersey, 240 Barnard, General, the Minot’s Ledge light, 178-82 Barra Head, 113 Barra Island, 113 Barsier rock, 269 Bauld Cape light, 169 “Bay of the Dead,” Finisterre, 21, 22 Beachy Head lighthouse, 24-27, 94 Belfast, 306 Bell Rock lighthouse, 9; lighting, 53; fog-signals, 59; the reef, 96-97 Bell-buoys, 68 Belle Ile, 51; the beacons, 169; the Northern light, 170-71; the Southern light, 169; the auxiliary light, 169-70; isolation of, 171 Belle Ile, Straits of, 162, 163, 169 Bells: on lighthouses, 58; submarine, 249-50 Biscay, Bay of, gales, 3-4 Bishop Rock lighthouse, 38, 51, 81-87 Black Prince, the, in Gascony, 4 Black Sea, lighthouses on the, 18-19 Blau liquid gas, 48-49 “Blowing-holes,” 62-63 Bluff, the, 236 Bois Blanc Island, 211 Bordeaux, trade of, 3-4 Boston Harbour: lighting, 6, 33-4, 196; Minot’s Ledge light, 176-82 Bothnia, Gulf of, unattended lighthouses, 268, 274 Bounty Islands, 239 Bourdelles, M., investigations, 56, 219 Brandywine Shoal light, 200-201 Brebner, Alexander, 117 “Breeches-buoy,” used at Tillamook Rock, 187-89 Bréhat, Heaux de, Reynaud’s tower, 149-53 Bréhat, Isle of, 149 Bremerhaven, 132, 138, 139, 141 Brett, Cape, lighthouse, 238 Brewster, Sir David, lighting methods, 29 Bridges and Roads, Department of, 148 Bristol Channel: the Flat Holme light, 7; unattended lighthouses, 278-79 British Columbia coastline, 284 Brittany coastline, 148 Brothers light, the, 234-35 Bull Rock lighthouse, 39 Bullivant cableways, 25-26 Bungaree Norah. _See_ Norah Head Buoys: bell and whistle, 68; gas-buoys, 244; the Willson, 286-89; combined light and whistling, 290 Büsun, 226 Byron Bay, 232 Byron Cape, 232 Cabrillo Point light, 205 Calf Rock light, 123 California coastline, 204 Campbell, General, 270 Campbell Island, 239 Canadian Marine Department, 8; systems of building, 18-19; fog-signalling apparatus, 66-68; lighting of the coastline, 161-75; lighting of the Great Lakes, 208-17; floating lighthouses, 286 Caribou Island lighthouse, 216-17 Carmel Head, 94 Carolina, North, 240 Carrington, W. H. T., 25 Casquets lighthouse: the approach to, 12-13; keepers of the, 314 Castle Point lighthouse, 238 Casuarina Island, 55
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