444 Prospectus of u new System of Beaconing. 
4thly. It will always be found precisely in the spot where it 
was frst laid down. 
Sthly. Being erect, it can be seen at a much greater distance 
than the present buoy. 
6thly. It will remain completely water-tight. 
7thly. While it defies alike the raging tempest, the fields of 
ice, weeds, the shock of a first-rate man of war, or any other 
body with which it may be assailed; that of the ordinary size 
is so reed-like and yielding, that the smallest jolly-boat would 
not, if suffered to run against it, be in the least injured. 
Sthly. Lastly, perhaps not least to be regarded, (as it may 
tend to its being more disseminated over the ecean and different 
seas,) it can be put down at a small expense; and, incredible as 
the foregoing may appear, the patentee (after one month’s pre- 
paration) will engage to furnish twenty beacens a week with all 
their appendages, and send to any quarter of the glabe*,. 
To show how the superiority now described is effected, the 
following observations are offered :—It consists, Ist and princi- 
pally, in the singularity of its shape, which is not very unlike 
that of a shoulder of mutton before the shank is cut off. 2Qdly, 
In the systematic arrangements respecting its mcorings; and, 
3dly, In its speaking an wniveral Janguage. 
In giving the bodies intended for sea beacons the form of a 
cone, (as has always been done,) a great error was committed, as 
no shape affording so much resistance, and therefore so badly 
ealeulated for the passing of the water, could have been found. 
The nest error was, in loading this ill-formed body, which ought 
to have been as light as possible, with a tremendous heavy chain. 
Froth these evils are here avoided, the shape offered being much 
sharper in the water than the sharpest Thames wherry; and not 
being loaded by the chain, as will be shown, the resistance is 
much less than that of a wherry, and it rides considerably lighter 
in the water. 
The annexed engraving will convey some idea of the improved 
form given to this beacon; which also, in what regards flcatage, 
presents, it is presumed, a new practical principle, and which, 
the patentee is vain enough to imagine, will be thought to possess 
considerable novelty, as hitherto the effect now produced, viz. 
the floating of a pillar, has never, that he knows of, been accom- 
plished, without the very objectionable incumbrance of an enor- 
mous bulk, and a quatitity of counterpoising ballast, proportioned 
to the elevation of the object to be raised, Indeed, it is hardly 
credible, after the numberless improvements that have been in-~ 
* Corporate bodies, and such individuals as desire to see the models, 
with their description, will be pleased to apply by-letter, addressed ‘* To 
the Patentee, 58, Great Queen-street.” 
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