The Cabinet of Curiosities, Or Wonders of the World Displayed: Forming a Repository of Whatever is Remarkable in the Regions of Nature and Art, Extraordinary Events, and Eccentric Biography. With Forty-three IllustrationsPiercy & Reed, 1840 - Curiosities and wonders |
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... EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE IN A STORM . THERE is scarcely one of our readers , probably , who has not heard of the Eddystone Lighthouse . It is erected on one of the rocks of that name , which lie in the English Channel , about fourteen miles ...
... EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE IN A STORM . THERE is scarcely one of our readers , probably , who has not heard of the Eddystone Lighthouse . It is erected on one of the rocks of that name , which lie in the English Channel , about fourteen miles ...
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... EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE IN A STORM . west of Plymouth called the Ram Head , from which they are about ten miles almost directly south . As these rocks ( called the Eddystone , in all probability , from the whirl or eddy which is occasioned ...
... EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE IN A STORM . west of Plymouth called the Ram Head , from which they are about ten miles almost directly south . As these rocks ( called the Eddystone , in all probability , from the whirl or eddy which is occasioned ...
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... lighthouse on the Eddystone rocks in 1696 , and it was finished about four years after . From the best information that can be obtained , it appears to have been a polygonal ( or many cornered ) building of stone , and , when it had ...
... lighthouse on the Eddystone rocks in 1696 , and it was finished about four years after . From the best information that can be obtained , it appears to have been a polygonal ( or many cornered ) building of stone , and , when it had ...
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... Eddystone Lighthouse in a Storm The Sagacity of Ants George Romando Horrible Narrative of a person who was buried alive VOL . II . Joseph Capper , Esq . Wonders of the Universe Singular Attachment of a Wolf Ancient Monumental Stone The ...
... Eddystone Lighthouse in a Storm The Sagacity of Ants George Romando Horrible Narrative of a person who was buried alive VOL . II . Joseph Capper , Esq . Wonders of the Universe Singular Attachment of a Wolf Ancient Monumental Stone The ...
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