Jcdouni of the Erection of the Bell Rock Lighthouse. 35 
landing the stores, and communicating with the light-house. 
Instead of a rope-ladder, the communication between the rock 
and the entrance-door, a height of about 30 feet, is now formed 
by a brazen stair, which ■answers also for part of a thunder-rod, 
and facilitates the raising of the stores, by a peculiar sort of 
crane adapted to this purpose. The fortunate position of the 
entrance-door rendering it seldom necessary to shut it in sum- 
mer, an inner door of brass has been hung, which is found to be 
a great conveniency to the inmates. During storms, when their 
double doors, double windows, and storm-shutters are closed, 
the light-keepers mention, that they occasionally feel a tremour 
in the building, from the shocks of the sea, but that all is quiet 
within, and they hear nothing of the dashing and roaring noise 
of the sea. 
We may remark, that the plates which accompany Mr Ste- 
venson's work, extending to twenty-three in number, are exe- 
cuted in a very masterly style, and contain numerous diagrams 
illustrative of the structure of the building, together with seve- 
ral maps of the coast. The frontispiece, engraved by Hors- 
burgh from a drawing by Turner, representing the lighthouse 
during a storm from the NE., has been altogether got up in a 
manner highly creditable ; nor can we omit praising a vignette, 
shewing the effect of the lighthouse when approached under 
night, from a sketch by Miss Stevenson. The most general map 
is constructed rather upon a new plan, having numerous sec- 
tions, which, at one view, shew the relative depths of the Ger- 
man Ocean at various places. The building itself has justly be- 
come an object of curiosity to distinguished foreigners, and to 
all who feel interested, either as amateurs or professionally, in 
the mechanical arts. The eminent French engineer Dupin, who 
had visited the Beil Bock in 1817, occupies a considerable por- 
tion of his last volume (1824) on the Public Works of England 
in describing this Lighthouse, An album is kept at the light- 
house, and it already includes the names of many celebrated 
individuals. 
In the Appendix is given a design for a light-house on the 
Wolfe Rock, situate off the Land’s-End of England, where, we 
believe, the erection of a lighthouse has been deemed nearly 
impracticable. This design we cannot help considering valu- 
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