Memoir upon the lighthouse illumination of the coasts of France.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781425511012
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: The entrances to ports and the mouths of navigable streams were for a long time regarded as the only places at which it was needful to establish lights for the benefit of the mariner, and the chief object and effort then was to give an great a range as possible to the lights thus placed to mark those points.