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Eddystone

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Eddystone (ĕd`ĭstən), lighthouse, 135 ft (41 m) high, on dangerous rocks in the English Channel, S of Plymouth, SW England. It is the fourth lighthouse on the site (the first was begun in 1696) built between 1878 and 1882 and designed by James Douglas.
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See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
So, in a gale, the but half-baffled Channel billows only recoil from the base of the Eddystone, triumphantly to overleap its summit with their scud.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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