each lantern, after the manner of a smith’s forge, and urged in a similar way by bellows; but the blowing could not be always maintained, and when that had been intermitted for a short time the lights nearly disappeared.
Since the expiration of the grant made to the first projector, the affairs have been under the intelligent, scientific, and liberal management of the Trinity House. They have substituted large Argand lamps, each placed in the focus of a parabolic mirror, plated with burnished silver; and these cast a continued and steady light, visible in clear weather to the extremity of the horizon.
Latitude of the Lizard flagstaff 49° 57′ 55″.8; longitude west from Greenwich 5° 11′ 17″.7. From the Trigonometrical Survey.
In Mr. Lax’s Table, the Western Light House is stated to have latitude 49° 57′ 44″, and longitude 5° 11′ 5″.
This parish measures 1,843 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 1,187 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 126 | 4 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 244 | in 1811, 303 | in 1821, 387 | in 1831, 406 |
giving an increase of 66 per cent. in 30 years.
Present Rector, the Rev. H. T. Coulson, presented in 1827 by Henry Coulson, Esq.
GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.