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morning after this tremendous gale the building 

 was no more to be seen. It had been completely 

 swept away by the fury of the waves, and not a 

 trace of it was ever afterwards discovered, ex- 

 cept part of a chain, which, on making the 

 foundation in 1706, was found so tightly jammed 

 between two of the rocks as to require to be cut 

 out. 



The loss of the lighthouse was soon felt, and 

 Mr. John Rudyard, by trade a silk mercer, in 

 London, and a man of great ingenuity, con- 

 structed a new building, the exterior of which 

 was entirely of wood, but loaded at the bottom 

 with about 270 tons of stone, to prevent it from 

 oversetting. It was completed in three years, and 

 the light was exhibited for the first time in 1709. 

 This building was of elegant form, greatly 

 superior in appearance to that of Mr. Winstan- 

 ley's, and somewhat higher, measuring ninety- 

 two feet from the base to the top of the lantern. 

 This great work, after having braved the ele- 

 ments forty-six years, was burnt to its foundation 

 in 1756. The three light-men with much diffi- 

 culty escaped to shore, one of whom declared 

 that, in attempting to throw water into the 

 lantern, for the purpose of extinguishing the fire, 



