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to the Lord High Treasurer, desiring payment of the 

 bills for Sir Cloudesley Shovel's funeral, 687, 5s. 9d. 



When Queen Anne's ships were lost on the rocks of 

 Scilly, the only light in the islands to warn mariners 

 was a coal-fire burnt on St. Agnes four or five miles 

 within the outer reefs in an open iron pan with sloping, 

 grated sides. It was the ' Cresset ' shown a few years 

 ago near the model of the Eddystone in the Naval 

 Exhibition, and now commonly in summer blazes 

 with geraniums, on a raised terrace at the end of one 

 of the alleys in Tresco Gardens. 



There are now three first-class lighthouses. On one 

 of these alone, on the ' Bishop ' a pink granite rock, 

 once mitre-shaped, which rises sheer from more than 

 twenty fathoms of water at the south-west corner of the 

 archipelago, where the Atlantic breakers roll in with a 

 'fetch' of 3600 nautical miles very nearly 112,000 

 has been spent in buildings and machinery during the 

 last fifty years. 



Another favourite home and breeding-place of the 

 Shearwater, grander, and, if possible, even more 

 beautiful, than Annet, is in Irish waters. 



Some ten or twelve miles to the west of the coast of 

 Kerry lie two small islands well worth a visit by any 

 who, tempted by the inducements held out by the 

 Tourists' Association, may be exploring the beauties of 

 Ireland, and are not afraid of a tossing. 



The outer, which shoots, a stupendous pyramid, cleft 

 at the top, more than 800 feet from the deep water of 

 the open Atlantic, is the rock of St. Michael of the 



