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a few years since.

bur experience

on that Commission taught at certain aciones - Among others there.

(a) That Sight houses should Lighthous always if possible be crocted on the outermost danger

Though the

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even

cost of erection and maintenance be thereby serially increated.

(4) That Lighthouses while

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they facilitate the ascertaining of Thips position and either help

a

her into harbor or to run on

fearlessly for

for some further points

very important

or which is a

matter to run back for shetter yet have this disadvantage that they encourage Captains to run

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thick weather, and

for theon this is done frequently

frequently and sor imprudently that in the wreck

Chark of England the immediate neighbourhood of many of the Lighthouses are every year thickly Spotted with wrecks and they

attributed to the above cause.

are

(1) of then a lighthouse is some distance / say three inles): inside the danger

as is the case.

of base d'Aquilar Lighthouse with regard to Waglan Island it will occasionally happen that Captains will be tempted to run on in thick weather, hoping to make the light and will instead