[FOOTNOTES:]
[1] Renard, “Les Phares” (Paris, 1867).
[2] Tor is Celtic for a height, as in the tors, or granite hills, of Dartmoor.
[3] As Mr. Stevenson says (in his “Treatise on Lighthouses”), a notion so fanciful as this deserves little consideration.
[4] Suetonius, “Claudian,” 20.
[5] Author of an [Αναπλους Βοσπόονρ], circa A. D. 190.
[6] Strabo, Edit. Oxon., 1867, p. 184.
[7] See Dr. Smith’s “Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography,” vol. i., sub. nom.
[8] Pliny, “Hist. Nat.,” xxxvi. 18.