Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1902 — A Lightess Lighthouse. [ARTICLE]

A Lightess Lighthouse.

The most extraordinary of all British lighthouses Is to be found on Arnlsh rock, Stornoway bay—a rock which Is separated from the Island of Lewis by a channel over 600 feet wide. On this rock a conical beacon is erected, and on its summit a lantern is fixed, from which, night after night, shines a light which is seen by the fishermen far and wide.” The way in which the lighthouse is illuminated is this: On the island of Lewis is a ■ighthouse, and from a window in the tower a stream of light is projected onto a mirror in the lantern on the summit of Arnish rock. The consequence is that, to all intents and purposes, a lighthouse exists which has neither lantern nor lighthouse keeper.