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GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
sionally, a complete list of all the light-houses in 
the United Kingdom *, containing a particular 
description of each ; its bearings, per compass, 
from neighbouring dangers, headlands, &c.; with 
such practical remarks as may be useful to the 
navigator: which list might be put in the way of 
every sailor, by being stitched up with the Nau¬ 
tical Almanack, Nautical Ephemcris, and all 
works on navigation in general; and, what would 
still farther secure its universal circulation, it 
might be kept at all the custom-houses, and a 
copy given or sold to all persons paying for lights 
on tlieir clearing outwards. Such a measure 
would relieve the mind of the navigator from nu¬ 
merous embarrassments, and would enable him to 
proceed with confidence and safety amid different 
lights, where now they are often very perplexing 
to strangers, to whom their distinguishing cha¬ 
racters are not known f. 
* Mr Robert Stevenson, civil-engineer, has in hand an 
Account of the Bell-Rock Light-House, with an introduc¬ 
tory description of the Northern Light-houses in general, 
which will afford all the materials necessary for the pro¬ 
posed descriptive list of the lights belonging to Scotland. 
t It was not until within a few years, that any particu¬ 
lar list and description of the lights about our coasts became 
of any consequence, since they were previously so few, and 
generally so remote from each other, that they could scarce¬ 
ly be mistaken. Now, however, the number has become 
