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Excerpt from Memoir Upon the Light-House Illumination of the Coasts of FranceThe 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 as great a range as possible to the lights thus placed to mark those points. It is now, and has been for some time, quite different, the ...
Excerpt from Memoir Upon the Light-House Illumination of the Coasts of FranceThe 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 as great a range as possible to the lights thus placed to mark those points. It is now, and has been for some time, quite different, the ...
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