Chapter XI

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

surrounding, or on every side of, something

From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

showing who or what does the action

From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading THE LIGHTHOUSE (_continued_).

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

a period of time or extent

From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading THE LIGHTHOUSE (_continued_).

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading THE LIGHTHOUSE (_continued_).

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading Some eleven miles eastward from the mainland of Scotland, near the entrances to the Firths of Forth and Tay, lies an extensive ledge of very dangerous rocks, nearly two miles in length.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

at the time that

From this reading This sunken reef was a source of much peril to the unfortunate sailors driven too near its nearly hidden dangers, and early in the fourteenth century the Abbot of Arbroath, or Arberbrothok, caused a bell to be placed upon the principal rock, so that— “When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blessed the Abbot of Arberbrothok.”

which person or people

From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

in the company of; together with

From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading Southey has, in his ballad of “The Inchcape Rock,” immortalised the tradition(56) that a notorious pirate cut the bell from the rock— “Down sank the bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles arose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘The next who comes to the Rock, Won’t bless the Abbot of Arberbrothok.’”

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.

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From this reading The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A New Form of Outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The Unshapely Seal and Unfortunate Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of the Lighthouse Exterior—How it Rocks—Practice _versus_ Theory—The Interior—A Parisian Apartment at Sea.