BOOK III.
LIGHTHOUSES OF GREAT BRITAIN.
CHAPTER I.
THE STORY OF THE EDDYSTONE: A.D. 1696, 1706, 1759.
The first lighthouse of a regular character erected on the shores of England seems to have been that of Lowestoft, in 1609. Among its successors we may refer to those of Hunstanton Point, 1665, and of the Scilly Islands, 1680. To the same epoch belong the lighthouses of Dungeness, Orfordness, and the Eddystone; the latter being the most important, the most remarkable, and the most interesting, as, I think, the following brief narrative will not fail to show.