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Updated: May 22, 2025
The outside steamers shriek from off the Point, as they feel their way at live of noon, groping as though it were dead of night, and stars and coast-lights all were smitten dark, and every pilot were a stranger to his chart. A stranger to my chart, I, doubtful, put about, and make the untried coast.
Let me remind you of that passage in which Rabelais borrowing, I believe, from Lucian brings the good Pantagruel and his fellow-voyagers to a port which he calls the Port of Lanterns. Also we saw the Lanterns of Pharos, of Nauplia, and of the Acropolis of Athens, sacred to Pallas, and so on; whence I draw the moral that coast-lights are good, yet, multiplied, they complicate navigation."
The system was soon introduced into England; and one of the first acts of the Northern Lights’ Board, so early as 1786, was to substitute reflectors in place of coast-lights, which till then had been the only beacons on the Scotch coast. In the improved lights the best spermaceti oil and the Argand lamp have been introduced.
Slowly the coast-lights fade, and now the rote of the sea among the lonely ledges of the Shoals salutes his attentive ear. A little longer and he nears Appledore, the first island, and now he passes by the snow-covered, ice-bound rock, with the long buildings showing clear in the moonlight. He must have looked at them as he went past.
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