CHAP. HI. 



THE EDDYSTONE ROCK. 



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CHAPTER III. 



THE EDDYSTONE KOCK WINSTANLEY'S AND KUDYERD'S 

 LIGHTHOUSES. 



THE Eddy stone forms the crest of an extensive reef of 

 rocks which rise up in deep water about fourteen miles 

 S.S.W. of Plymouth Harbour. Being well out at sea, 

 they are nearly in a line with Lizard Head and Start 

 Point, and besides being in the way of ships bound for 

 Plymouth Sound, they lie in the very direction of vessels 

 coasting up and clown the English Channel. At low 



COAST OF DEVON AND CORNWALL. 



water, several long low reefs of gneiss are visible, jagged 

 and black ; but at high water they are almost completely 

 submerged. Lying in a sloping manner towards the 

 south-west quarter, from which the heaviest seas come, 

 the waves in stormy weather come tumbling up the slope 

 and break over their crest with tremendous violence. 

 The water boils and eddies amongst the reefs, and hence 

 the name which they have borne from the earliest times 

 of the Eddystone Rocks. 



