of setting up one of these frames upon the bridge, it was
unguardedly suffered to lose its balance, and in saving it

from damage Captain Wilson met with a severebruise in the
groin, on the seat of a gun-shot wound received in the early

part of his life. This accident laid him aside for several
days.

[Monday, 27th Aug.]
The sash-frames of the light-room, eight in number, and

weighing each 254 pounds, having been got safely up to the top
of the building, were ranged on the balcony in the order in

which they were numbered for their places on the top of the
parapet-wall; and the balance-crane, that useful machine

having now lifted all the heavier articles, was unscrewed and
lowered, to use the landing-master's phrase, `in mournful

silence.'
[Sunday, 2nd Sept.]

The steps of the stair being landed, and all the
weightier articles of the light-room got up to the balcony,

the woodenbridge was now to be removed, as it had a very
powerful effect upon the beacon when a heavy sea struck it,

and could not possibly have withstood the storms of a winter.
Everything having been cleared from the bridge, and nothing

left but the two principal beams with their horizontal braces,
James Glen, at high-water, proceeded with a saw to cut through

the beams at the end next the beacon, which likewise
disengaged their opposite extremity, inserted a few inches

into the building. The frame was then gently lowered into the
water, and floated off to the SMEATON to be towed to Arbroath,

to be applied as part of the materials in the erection of the
lightkeepers' houses. After the removal of the bridge, the

aspect of things at the rock was much altered. The beacon-
house and building had both a naked look to those accustomed

to their former appearance; a curious optical deception was
also remarked, by which the lighthouse seemed to incline from

the perpendicular towards the beacon. The horizontal rope-
ladder before noticed was again stretched to preserve the

communication, and the artificers were once more obliged to
practise the awkward and straddling manner of their passage

between them during 1809.
At twelve noon the bell rung for prayers, after which the

artificers went to dinner, when the writer passed along the
rope-ladder to the lighthouse, and went through the several

apartments, which were now cleared of lumber. In the
afternoon all hands were summoned to the interior of the

house, when he had the satisfaction of laying the upper step
of the stair, or last stone of the building. This ceremony

concluded with three cheers, the sound of which had a very
loud and strange effect within the walls of the lighthouse.

At six o'clock Mr. Peter Logan and eleven of the artificers
embarked with the writer for Arbroath, leaving Mr. James Glen

with the special charge of the beacon and railways, Mr. Robert
Selkirk with the building, with a few artificers to fit the

temporary windows to render the house habitable.
[Sunday, 14th Oct.]

On returning from his voyage to the Northern Lighthouses,
the writer landed at the Bell Rock on Sunday, the 14th of

October, and had the pleasure to find, from the very
favourable state of the weather, that the artificers had been

enabled to make great progress with the fitting-up of the
light-room.

[Friday, 19th Oct.]
The light-room work had proceeded, as usual, to-day under

the direction of Mr. Dove, assisted in the plumber-work by Mr.
John Gibson, and in the brazier-work by Mr. Joseph Fraser;

while Mr. James Slight, with the joiners, were fitting up the
storm-shuttters of the windows. In these several departments

the artificers were at work till seven o'clock p.m., and it
being then dark, Mr. Dove gave orders to drop work in the

light-room; and all hands proceeded from thence to the beacon-
house, when Charles Henderson, smith, and Henry Dickson,

brazier, left the work together. Being both young men, who
had been for several weeks upon the rock, they had become

familiar, and even playful, on the most difficult parts about
the beacon and building. This evening they were trying to

outrun each other in descending from the light-room, when
Henderson led the way; but they were in conversation with each

other till they came to the rope-ladder distended between the
entrance-door of the lighthouse and the beacon. Dickson, on

reaching the cook-room, was surprised at not seeing his
companion, and inquired hastily for Henderson. Upon which the

cook replied, `Was he before you upon the rope-ladder?'
Dickson answered, `Yes; and I thought I heard something fall.'

Upon this the alarm was given, and links were immediately
lighted, with which the artificers descended on the legs of

the beacon, as near the surface of the water as possible, it
being then about full tide, and the sea breaking to a

considerable height upon the building, with the wind at S.S.E.
But, after watching till low-water, and searching in every

direction upon the rock, it appeared that poor Henderson must
have unfortunately" target="_blank" title="ad.不幸；不朽；可惜">unfortunately fallen through the rope-ladder, and been

washed into the deep water.
The deceased had passed along this rope-ladder many

hundred times, both by day and night, and the operations in
which he was employed being nearly finished, he was about to

leave the rock when this melancholycatastrophe took place.
The unfortunate loss of Henderson cast a deep gloom upon the

minds of all who were at the rock, and it required some
management on the part of those who had charge to induce the

people to remain patiently at their work; as the weather now
became more boisterous, and the nights long, they found their

habitation extremely cheerless, while the winds were howling
about their ears, and the waves lashing with fury against the

beams of their insulated habitation.
[Tuesday, 23rd Oct.]

The wind had shifted in the night to N.W., and blew a
fresh gale, while the sea broke with violence upon the rock.

It was found impossible to land, but the writer, from the
boat, hailed Mr. Dove, and directed the ball to be immediately

fixed. The necessary preparations were accordingly made,
while the vessel made short tacks on the southern side of the

rock, in comparatively smooth water. At noon Mr. Dove,
assisted by Mr. James Slight, Mr. Robert Selkirk, Mr. James

Glen, and Mr. John Gibson, plumber, with considerable
difficulty, from the boisterous state of the weather, got the

gilded ball screwed on, measuring two feet in diameter, and
forming the principal ventilator at the upper extremity of the

cupola of the light-room. At Mr. Hamilton's desire, a salute
of seven guns was fired on this occasion, and, all hands being

called to the quarter-deck, `Stability to the Bell Rock
Lighthouse' was not forgotten.

[Tuesday, 30th Oct.]
On reaching the rock it was found that a very heavy sea

still ran upon it; but the writer having been disappointed on
two former occasions, and, as the erection of the house might

now be considered complete, there being nothing wanted
externally, excepting some of the storm-shutters for the