In order to give a slight idea of the force this lighthouse has to withstand, we may quote the following remarks from Mr. Stevenson. He says:—“It is awfully grand, at the time of high water, to observe the spray rising on the building, and even to be on the rock at low water, when the waves are about to break. Being, in a manner, only a few yards distant, they approach as if they were about to overwhelm us altogether. But, now that we are accustomed to such scenes, we think little of it. You will, perhaps, form a better idea of the force of these gales, when I relate to you that, on the 15th of February, the large piece of lead which was used as a tack weight of the balance crane, weighing nearly five hundred pounds, was fairly lifted by the sea and carried to the distance of six feet from the hole in which it had laid since the month of August. It was found turned round, with the ring-bolt downwards, and it was with great difficulty that four of us could muster strength enough to move it.” There are many other lighthouses upon our coast. That at the Land’s End is a very fine one, as is that at Orford and Yarmouth Sound. Of late years a new mode of building lighthouses has been in operation, and of this I shall say a few words. Perhaps no class of persons are exposed to greater dangers than seamen. They have to contend, not only against the elements, when all around them is a barren waste of waters, but, no sooner are they gladdened by the sight of land, than their perils are increased to a much greater extent. In the former case, the wind was, perhaps, the only danger they might have to provide against, but approaching land they must take care to avoid sunken rocks and sand-banks, which might be the cause of their destruction. Upon rocks and the solid coasts, lighthouses have been erected with comparative ease (as we have already stated), but, upon sands, the erection of them is very difficult; and was, till within these few years, considered to be almost insurmountable. Floating lights, which are large lanthorns suspended in the rigging of a vessel, or built up in the hull, are frequently used to illuminate a sandy coast, full of shoals and sand-banks—but these are subject to many inconveniences, by the pitching and rolling of the vessel—for every now and then she is partially submerged in the trough of the sea, covered with spray and drift; or, what is most to be dreaded, she is liable to be blown away from her moorings—an accident productive of the most disastrous consequences to life and property; for should such a catastrophe happen, the ships sailing along a coast having nothing to warn them of their danger, run upon the shoals or sand-banks, and are frequently totally wrecked, and all traces of them lost, in the course of a very few hours.