List of Illustrations.
| Eddystone Lighthouse (Frontispiece). | |
| The Beacon Fire, | 1 |
| A Roman Pharos, | 15 |
| A Medal of Apameia, | 16 |
| Ancient Pharos of Alexandria, | 23 |
| Modern Lighthouse of Alexandria, | 27 |
| Tour d’Ordre of Boulogne, | 33 |
| The Tower at Dover, | 39 |
| The Colossus of Rhodes, | 45 |
| Trinity House, | 58 |
| Lighthouse on a Rocky Headland, | 64 |
| Catoptric Apparatus, | 72 |
| An Argand Fountain Lamp, | 74 |
| Revolving Apparatus on the Catoptric Principle, | 75 |
| Annular-built Lens, | 78 |
| Electric Apparatus for Fixed Light, | 82 |
| Annular Lens of First Order, | 85 |
| Diagram, Illustrating Progress of Luminous Ray in a Catadioptric Ring, | 87 |
| Fresnel’s Revolving Light, | 90 |
| Stevenson’s Holophotal Light, | 91 |
| Stevenson’s Fixed Light varied by Flashes, | 92 |
| Fresnel’s Fixed Light Apparatus, | 93 |
| French Fixed Light Apparatus, | 93 |
| Cupola of First-class Lighthouse, | 100 |
| Sea-Birds attracted by Lighthouse Rays, | 105 |
| Winstanley’s Eddystone Lighthouse, | 111 |
| Smeaton’s Lighthouse at the Eddystone, | 127 |
| The Lightship at the Nore, | 131 |
| The Smalls Lighthouse, | 135 |
| Inchkeith Lighthouse, | 146 |
| Building the Bell Rock Lighthouse, | 150 |
| The Bell Rock Lighthouse, | 163 |
| Skerryvore Lighthouse, | 178 |
| North Unst Lighthouse, | 183 |
| Transporting a Lighthouse, | 187 |
| Needles Lighthouse, | 190 |
| Wolf’s Crag Lighthouse, | 195 |
| Bishop Rock Lighthouse, | 197 |
| Lizard Point Lighthouse, | 198 |
| Plymouth Breakwater Lighthouse, | 199 |
| North Foreland Lighthouse, | 201 |
| South Foreland Lighthouse, | 202 |
| Holyhead Lighthouse, | 203 |
| Kinsale Lighthouse, | 204 |
| Fastnet Rock Lighthouse, | 205 |
| Maplin Sands Lighthouse, | 206 |
| Alguada Reef Lighthouse, | 209 |
| Ancient Tower of Cordouan, | 215 |
| Present Lighthouse of Cordouan, | 219 |
| Interior of Cordouan Lighthouse, | 222 |
| Lighthouse of Cape La Hève, | 229 |
| Erection of Lighthouse at the Héaux, | 241 |
| Lighthouse of the Enfant Perdu, | 247 |
| Lighthouse at New Caledonia, | 251 |
| The Lightship, | 257 |
| Pompey’s Pillar, | 267 |
| A Floating Beacon, | 271 |
| The Arnish Beacon, | 274 |
| Eddystone Lighthouse in a Storm, | 283 |
| Girdleness Lighthouse, | 298 |
| Whalsey Skerries Lighthouse, | 300 |
| Ship Rock of Sanda Lighthouse, | 301 |