"I want to run out to the Bishop
Lighthouse," Granet announced.
In all the devious tracings the course of a sailing-ship leaves upon the white paper of a chart she is always aiming for that one little spot - maybe a small island in the ocean, a single headland upon the long coast of a continent, a
lighthouse on a bluff, or simply the peaked form of a mountain like an ant-heap afloat upon the waters.
And when the elderly man refused to listen and mumbled on, an odd image came to his mind of a
lighthouse besieged by the flying bodies of lost birds, who were dashed senseless, by the gale, against the glass.
See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone
lighthouse. Look at it --a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background.
This intense heat they project in a parallel beam against any object they choose, by means of a polished parabolic mirror of unknown composition, much as the parabolic mirror of a
lighthouse projects a beam of light.
The harbour lies below me, with, on the far side, one long granite wall stretching out into the sea, with a curve outwards at the end of it, in the middle of which is a
lighthouse. A heavy seawall runs along outside of it.
Gnarled and crooked and with flexible hardness shall it then stand by the sea, a living
lighthouse of unconquerable life.
"We'll take a look at the
lighthouse first, for you have not been there yet, and it is worth seeing.
I examined the fittings of the apparatus, the strength of which was increased a hundredfold by lenticular rings, placed similar to those in a
lighthouse, and which projected their brilliance in a horizontal plane.
'The wind sounds up here,' quoth Eugene, stirring the fire, 'as if we were keeping a
lighthouse. I wish we were.'
Anne and Gilbert found Uncle Jim sitting on a bench outside the
lighthouse, putting the finishing touches to a wonderful, full-rigged, toy schooner.
An hour after, the Henrietta passed the
lighthouse which marks the entrance of the Hudson, turned the point of Sandy Hook, and put to sea.