The Eddystone Rocks--Their Situation and dangerous Character--The first Lighthouse by Winstanley--Its Progress and Completion--Its awful Fate--Rudyerd’s Lighthouse--Description of--Its Destruction by Fire--Smeaton appointed to construct a New Edifice 21 CHAPTER IV. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF SMEATON. Birth of Smeaton--His early Character and Employments--Educated for an attorney--His dislike of that profession--Becomes Philosophical Instrument Maker--His Scientific Inquiries--Is appointed to build the Eddystone Lighthouse--His subsequent Employments--Public Works designed and completed by him--His Literary Works--His last Illness and Death--His Character-- Illustrative Anecdotes 40 CHAPTER V. THE EDDYSTONE AS A TYPE OF ENGLISH LIGHTHOUSES. A Stone Lighthouse proposed--Smeaton’s first Visit to the Rock--Operations of the First Season--Second Season--Structure of the Foundation--Ingenious Mode of securing the Stones--Third Season--State of the Work--Progress and Description of the Work--Accidents to the Engineer--Proposal to exhibit a Light before the completion of the Building refused--Fourth Season-- Completion of the Work--Appearance of the Lighthouse during a Storm--Situation of the Light-keepers 50 CHAPTER VI. THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES. Importance of Lighting the Scottish Coast--Formation of Board of Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses--Early Proceedings of the Board--Principal Northern Lighthouses--The Isle of May Lighthouse--Loss of two Frigates--Application of the Admiralty to the Lighthouse Board, by whom the Duties and the Island of May are purchased--Numerous Shipwrecks on the Island of Sanday--Foundation-stone of Start-Point Lighthouse laid--Rev. W. Traill’s Address upon the occasion-- Subsequent Proceedings on Sanday Island--North Ronaldsay Lighthouse--Melancholy Accident--Importance of the Northern Lighthouses 64 CHAPTER VII. THE BELL-ROCK LIGHTHOUSE AS A TYPE OF SCOTTISH LIGHTHOUSES.