This book is well illustrated throughout, and is admirably adapted to those who require light scientific reading.—Nature.
Lighthouses and Lightships.
LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS. By W.H.D. Adams. With sixty illustrations. One volume 12mo. Printed on tinted paper $1 50
The aim of this volume is to furnish in a popular and intelligible form a description of the Lighthouse as it is and as it was, of the rude Roman pharos, or old sea-tower, with its flickering fire of wood or coal, and the modern Lighthouse, shapely and yet substantial, with its powerful illuminating apparatus of lamps and lenses, shining ten, or twelve, or twenty miles across the waters. The author gives a descriptive and historical account of their mode of construction and organization, based on the best authorities, and revised by competent critics. Sketches are furnished of the most remarkable Lighthouses in the Old World, and a graphic narration is presented of the mode of life of their keepers.
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"The book is full of interest."—N.Y. Commercial Advertiser.
"The whole subject is treated in a manner at once interesting and instructive."—Rochester Democrat.
"The illustrations are full, and excellently engraved."—Phil. Morning Post.