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THE EDDYSTONE KOCK- 



PART VI. 



most calm in other places, yet here it would mount and 

 fly more than two hundred feet, as has been so found 

 since there was lodgment on the place, and therefore all 

 our works were constantly buried at those times, and 

 exposed to the mercy of the seas." 



The second summer was spent in making a solid pillar, 

 twelve feet high and fourteen feet in diameter, on which 



to set the lighthouse. In the 

 third year, all the upper work 

 was erected to the vane, which 

 was eighty feet above the 

 foundation. In the midsum- 

 mer of that year Winstanley 

 ventured to take up his lodg- 

 ing with the workmen 

 in the lighthouse ; but 

 a ' storm arose, and 

 eleven days passed 

 before any boats could 

 come near them. Dur- 

 ing that period the sea 

 washed in upon Win- 

 stanley and his com- 

 panions, wetting all 

 their clothing and 

 provisions, and carry- 

 ing off many of their 

 materials. By 

 the time the 

 boats could 

 land, the party 

 were reduced almost to their last crust ; but happily the 

 building stood, apparently firm. Finally, the light was 

 exhibited on the 14th of November, 1698. 



The fourth year was occupied in strengthening the 

 building round the foundations, making all solid nearly 

 to a height of twenty feet, and also in raising the upper 



WJNSTANLEY-3 LIGHTHOUSE. 



