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BELL ROCK LIGHT HOUSE
DURING A STORM FROM THE NORTH EAST.

Drawn by J. M. W. Turner R. A.

Engraved by J. Horsburgh.

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AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
BELL ROCK LIGHT-HOUSE,

INCLUDING THE
DETAILS OF THE ERECTION AND PECULIAR STRUCTURE
OF THAT EDIFICE.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A
HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE INSTITUTION AND PROGRESS
OF THE
NORTHERN LIGHT-HOUSES.

ILLUSTRATED WITH TWENTY-THREE ENGRAVINGS.

DRAWN UP BY DESIRE OF
THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE NORTHERN LIGHT-HOUSES,

BY
ROBERT STEVENSON,
CIVIL ENGINEER;
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH;
MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF SCOTISH ANTIQUARIES, OF THE WERNERIAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY,
AND OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;
ENGINEER TO THE NORTHERN LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD, AND TO THE CONVENTION
OF ROYAL BOROUGHS OF SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH;
HURST, ROBINSON & CO. 90. CHEAPSIDE; AND JOSIAH TAYLOR, 50. HIGH HOLBORN,
LONDON.
1824.

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TO
THE KING.

SIRE,

It is with much diffidence that the author now lays before YourMajesty, an Account of the arduous national undertaking of erectinga Light-house on the Bell Rock,—a sunk reef, lying about eleven milesfrom the shore, and so situated as to have long proved an object of dreadto mariners on the eastern coast of Scotland, especially when makingfor the Friths of Forth and Tay.

This edifice being of the utmost consequence to the safety of YourMajesty’s Ships of War upon the North Sea station, and of the commercialshipping of this part of the empire, he presume