Ideas for Smeaton's Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks Product:Fine art poster the right hand held at

the right hand held at the breast

Inscribed verso in ink: 'Sir Chas Lyell 7161a'

March 1992 DM-1894-313

Rabbist's Skins

bones were ejected from the structure

Ideas for Smeaton's Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks Product:Fine art poster the right hand held atDepiction of the third lighthouse built upon the Eddystone Rocks, near Plymouth. Figures 1 and 2 show observations by the civil engineer John Smeaton (1724 1792) on how his lighthouse (shown in figure 6) should be modelled on the trunk and boughs of an oak tree; figures 3 and 4 show Smeaton's technique of dovetailing masonry for added strength; and figure 5 shows the dovetailing technique from a vertical perspective. The third lighthouse was built