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hopper, and conveyed down a square wboden pipe, through a funnel formed in the brick-work, and from thence into a bingstead in the court-yard.

Hie corner pillars of the lantern were of cast-iron, the sash frames of oak.

The year after the completion of the lighthouses, the lower one was washed away, andtotally destroyed, when a new swape light was erected: in the year 181G the coal fires