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derricks were the pride of the sparmaker's art ; and the perfect- 

 running, flawless pulley-blocks of lignum vitse were from the care- 

 ful hands of Richard Bourne, one of the model builders, who first 

 laid out the circumference of the ground plot at the ledge. Mr. 

 Bourne, now a resident of Clinton, Mass., is still hale and hearty, 

 and enjoys with a keen relish the recollection of this splendid 

 undertaking of his native town. 



The Quincy cutters avowed that such chiseling had never left 

 the hand of man ; and a closer look into the manner of joining 



MiNOT Lighthouse, half grown. 

 From an old photograph. 



the tower will prove that the need was of the first order. The 

 first few courses bear no semblance to regular masonry. The 

 lines of junction formed by the juxtaposition of the various rock- 

 levels trace out the most erratic curvings, and suggest a snarl of 

 wire loosely confined within a circle. As the courses grew, how- 

 ever, clearing first one and then another of the points of rock, 

 they began to take shape and to admit of a radial arrangement, 



