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where the entry door is placed, tlie ascent to which 'S . 
kind of rope-ladde'- with wooden steps, hung out 
tide, and taken into the building again when the 
covers the rock ; but strangers to this sort of cUinhuV , 
taken up in a kind of chair, by a small moveable cwf® 
iected from the door, from which a narrow passage 
a stone staircase thirteen feet in height. Here the 
are seven feet tliick ; but they gradually diminish 
top of the staircase to the parapet wall of the gUp'. 
where they measure one foot only in thickness. T- ’ 
per part of the building is divided into six apartmcp® 
the u.se of the light-house keepers, and for contain'Oe^^p. 
light-house stores. The lower, or first of these floorSj^ 
tains the water-tanks, fuel, and other bulky articles 
second, the oil- cisterns, glass, and other light-room s 
the third is occupied as a kitchen ; the fourth is j|jt: 
room; the fifth, ike library, or stranger’s room ; • tii< 
upper’ apartment forms the light-room. The floors 
several ap.srtments are of stone, and the 
from the one to the other is 
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eftected by wooden la 
except in the case of the light-room. 
where eveiy 
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being fire- proof, the steps are made of iron. ^ 
the three lower apartments are two windows ; 
upper rooms have four windows each. The 
the windows are double, and are glazed with p'af .=1 o 
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having besides an outer storm-shutter, or 
limber, to defend the glass from the waves and '* 
the sea. The parapet wall of the light-room is sis 
.acight, and has a door leaditig out to the halconVj ‘qMj 
formed by the cornice round the upper part of the 
which is surrounded by a cast-iron rail, curiously ^ 31) 
like net-work. Tliis rail reposes on batts of b 
has a massive coping, or top- rail, of tlic same ™ct"‘ |.5ti>’' 
'rite light-room was, with tlie whole of its fpl 
fi-;mied and prepared at Edinburgh. It is of 
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nal figure, measuring twelve feet across, and ® ^fraiby 
height, formed with cast-iron sashes, or '''ibd°'.^^ 
glazed with large plates of polished glass, measub o 3 
i.i.r, f»pi c’,v inches, by two feet three, and the w'-. C<^1 
It is covered with a dome ff" ^^6 
in a large gilt ball^ with a v®" 
inch in thickness, 
per, termin.ating 
the top. 
