 | Books and bookselling - 1799 - 500 pages
...gun port; and the windows are mere loop holes, denying light to exclude wind. When thr tide fwellg above the foundation of the building, the light -houfe makes the odd appearance of a ftrufture •emerging fr»m the waves. But fometimes a wave rifes above the very'top of it, and circling... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - Devon (England) - 1817 - 346 pages
...weighed seven ounces. The door of this ingenious piece of architecture is only the size of a ship's gun-port, and the windows are mere loop-holes, denying light, to exclude wind. When the tide swells above the foundation of the building, the light-house makes the odd appearance of a structure... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
...exported in its crude state. The door of this ingenious piece of architecture is only the size of a ship's gun-port ; and the windows are mere loop-holes, denying light to exclude wind. When the tide swells above the foundation of the building, the light- house makes the odd appearance of a structure... | |
 | Old Sailor - Naval biography - 1826 - 534 pages
...exported in its crude state. The door of this ingenious piece of architecture is only the size of a ship's gun-port : and the windows are mere loopholes, denying light to exclude wind. When the tide swells above the foundation of the building, the light-house makes the odd appearance of a structure... | |
 | 1831 - 412 pages
...other, by massy dovetails. The door of this ingenious piece of architecture is only the size of a ship's gun-port; and the windows are mere loopholes, denying light to exclude wind. When the tide swells above the foundation of the building, the lighthouse makes the odd appearance of a structure... | |
 | 1831 - 418 pages
...dovetails. The door of this ingenious piece of architecture is only the size of a ship's gun port ; and the windows are mere loopholes, denying light to exclude wind. When the tide swells above the foundation of the building, the lighthouse makes the odd appearance of a structure... | |
 | 1832 - 618 pages
...exported in its crude state. The door of this ingenious piece of architecture is only the size of a ship's gun-port ; and the windows are mere loop-holes — denying light, to exclude wind. When the tide swells above the foundation of the building, the lighthouse makes the odd appearance of a structure... | |
 | Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 pages
...exported in its crude state. The door of this ingenious piece of architecture is only the size of a ship's gun-port ; and the windows are mere loop-holes, denying light to exclude wind. When the tide swells above the foundation of the building, the light-house makes the odd appearance of a structure... | |
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The door of this ingenious piece of architecture is only the size of a ship's gun-port ; and the windows are mere loop-holes — denying light, to exclude wind. When the tide swells above the foundation of the building, the lighthouse makes the odd appearance... 