Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1892 — Tall Lighthouses. [ARTICLE]

Tall Lighthouses.

Some lighthouses are tall towers while others look like gigantic spiders squatting on the water. Others still, like that of Point Reyes, Cal., are set upon tall cliffs, being only big enough to contain the lantern and other apparatus, yet are built complete at the foundry and transported in sections to the place where they are to be put up. Whereas on the Atlantic coast it is difficult to make a lighthouse high, enough, on the precipitous shore of the Pacific the trouble is to get such structures low enough, so that they may not be shrouded by the fogs of tho upper atmospheric level. The tallest lighthouse tower is 189 feet from its basa .to the center of the lantern, at Capo Hatteras. Highest übove the sea level is the one at Point Loma, at the entranco of San Diego Bay, Cal., 462 feet abovo the ocean.