EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE. [By Percival Skelton.] 



CHAPTEK IV. 



SMEA.TON'S LIGHTHOUSE ON THE EDDYSTONE. 



CAPTAIN LOVET, the lessee of the- lighthouse, having died 

 in 1715, his property was sold, and Mr. Eobert Weston, 

 in company with two others, became the purchasers of the 

 lease. On the destruction of Eudyerd's timber building, 

 Mr. Weston applied to the Earl of Macclesfield, Presi- 

 dent of the Royal Society, for his advice under the cir- 

 cumstances, and requested him to point out an architect 

 capable of undertaking the reconstruction of the light- 

 house in an efficient manner. Mr. Smeaton's account 



