, 1881-11-05

there are SIX apartments, each Occu-
pying a story. The lowest story is
about 4Oft. above the rock, and ac-
cess to il is obtained by an outside
ladder of 81 gun-metal steps fixed in
the granite wall. The ascent of this
ladder is even more trying to weak
cry than the process of landing,
or OF being landed, on the rock with
the derrick. Safety lies in keeping a
firm hold with hands and feet, and in
looking upwards rather than d~ownwards.
When you have made the ascent, you are
in the coal aud water store. You look
around for a minute or two to realize your
situation, and then you mount by a steep
and narrow light Of oaken steps to the oil
store. There is nothing to detain you
there, so you ascend by another wooden
staircase to the kitchen, a tim little room
with q neat, close range, on which a cop,
per kettle SINNERS, several cupboar,ls, a
table and chairs, a carpenters bench hung
from one side, aud two plate'glass windows
set deeply in the granite wall. Above
that, and reached in the same way, is the
dry store, aud in which The provisions are
kept. Above thar, aud still Smaller-for
Of course, the area contracts as We ascend
is the Sleepipgloom, in which there are
six berths, arranged in two tiers of three
in each. Above that is the library
pleasant little sitting room, furnished with
cupbo&rdS filled with books and periodicals
aud with cheerful oetlooks seawards.
Above the library is the lantern or light.
room, which is in some respects the most
interesting apartment in the building.
From the topmost course ofgranite mason
~, which is here two feet thick, there
~,isessa circular glass house, consisting of
large di imond-shaped %lunettes Of plate
glass fixed III metal frames. Within tdis
IS the lantern proper, which ia a fixed,
circular white light, consisting of convex
leases and p'isms arranged on the dioptric
principle. The lipht appears as Il white
light all aroupd, except en- the south-eas',
where there IS Il red sector, produced, not
by any change 10 the lantern i'seIf, bur by
the outer wall OF the cupola being filled
in with red glass. At present the red
light, as well as the white light, is station
airy but it has been resolved TO make The
red a flashing Ilgat, aud the engineers
whom | accompanied to the lighthouse
took mea ,urements and made calculations
in order to c%ontrive tie requisite machine
~. Bel ween the parafliu lamp and the
dioptric lenses which surround il five men
could stand with ease, Connected with
the machinery which supplies the lamp
with oil there in a Email bell, which rings
every second g while the lamp ho DIS o. to
burn" and which stops IS soon as the
supply of oil fails. This continuance Is
designed to prevent the attendant watcher
from falling asleep. At first the bell was
made to ring when the lamp went out
but it was thought hat, il the watch Tell
asleep, the rinkIlug OF a small bell in the
midst of aIStorm migh4 fail to awaken him;
aud, on the prlLcIp'e that prevention Is
better than cure, th4 present arrangement
was devised. Even if the watch fell asleep
while the bell was ringing. The stopping of
the bell would in all probability awaken
hun. There is not much likelihood how
ever, of the arrangement being subjected
to this test. There ere always three men
in the lighthouse, and as during the night
each of them watches Tor three hours In
The lamp room, each Ut them may also
rest for six. One of the most important
aud Iaborious OF the watchers duties, at
least in foggy weather. is to attend to
the machinery connected with the to9-bell.
That is large aud powerful bell suspend