The accompanying Plate (XXXIII.) exhibits a perspective view of this important national edifice (which has not improperly been termed the Scottish Pharos), as it is seen after a gale at north-east. In describing it we shall first notice the position of the rock, and circumstances connected with it, and then describe the progressive advancement and finishing of the building.

The Inch Cape, or Bell Rock, is situate on the north-eastern coast of Great Britain, about 12 miles in a south-western direction from the town of Arbroath, in the county of Forfar, and about 30 miles in a north-eastern direction from St Abb's Head, in the county of Berwick; and, as may be seen from the charts of that coast, it lies in the direct track of the Firth of Tay, and of a great proportion of the shipping of the Firth of Forth which embraces the extensive local trade of the populous counties of Fife, Clackmannan, Stirling, Linlithgow, Edinburgh, and Haddington; and which being an admiral's station, is now the rendezvous of the North Sea fleet. This estuary is, besides, the principal inlet upon the eastern coast of Britain, in which the shipping of the German Ocean and North Sea take refuge, when overtaken by easterly storms. When the tides are neap, or at the quadratures of the moon, the Bell Rock is scarcely uncovered at low water; but, in spring tides, when the ebbs are greatest, that part of the rock which is exposed to view at low water measures about 427 feet in length, by 230 feet in breadth; and, in this low state of the tides, its average perpendicular height above the surface of the sea may be stated at about four feet. Beyond the space included in these measurements, at very low tides, there is a reef on which the larger kinds of fuci appear floating at the surface of the water. This reef extends about 1000 feet, in a south-western direction from the higher part of the rock just described, on which the light-house is erected. The whole rock is composed of sandstone of a red colour, with some spots of a whitish colour. It strongly resembles the rocks forming the promontory on the Forfarshire coast, called the Red Head, and those also of the opposite shores of Haddington and Berwick shires, near Dunclag. The stone is hard, of a fine grain, and contains minute specks of mica. Its surface is rugged, with holes which, at ebb-tide, form small pools of water. Such parts of the rock as appear only in the lowest tides, are thickly coated with fuci; the larger specimens are Fucus digitatus, great tangle, and Fucus esculentus, or badderlock, a sea-weed which sometimes attains here the length of 18 or 20 feet. Those parts most frequently left by the tide are covered with small shell-fish, such as the common barnacle, the limpet, the whelk, and a few common muscles; and some very large seals rest upon its extremities at low water of spring-tides. At high water, the red ware cod is caught over the rock; and at a distance from it, as the water deepens, the common cod, haddock, whiting, skate, holibut, and other fishes common in these seas, are very numerous.

Such being the position and nature of the Bell Rock, lying in the direct track of a numerous class of shipping, and appearing only a few feet in height above the water, and that only at the ebbs of spring-tides, being at high-water wholly covered to the depth of from 10 to 12 feet; the want of some distinguishing mark that might point out its place was long felt by the mariner, and of the utility and necessity of this, every returning winter gave the public fresh proofs. But it required a great extent of commerce to afford the probability of raising an adequate revenue, by a small duty or tonnage upon vessels passing it, to meet the risk and expense of such a work, as the erection of a habitable house about 12 miles distant from the nearest land, and on a rock from 10 to 12 feet wholly under water at spring-tides. We have read of the wonderful extent of the Pharos of Alexandria, and are acquainted with the Tower of Corduan, erected upon a small island at the entrance of the Garonne, on the coast of France, and know, more particularly, the history and structure of the Eddystone light-house, built upon a small rock lying 12 miles off the coast of Cornwall. The public is in possession of Mr Smeaton's perspicuous and valuable account of that work; but it is to be observed, that, in the erection of a light-house upon the Bell Rock, independently of its distance from the main-land, a serious difficulty must here have presented itself, arising from the greater depth of water at which it was necessary to carry on the operations, than in the case of any former building of this kind.

Tradition tells us, that so far back as the fourteenth century, the monks of Aberbrothick caused a large bell to be suspended, by some means or other, upon the Rock, to which the waves of the sea gave motion, the tolling of the bell warning the mariner of his approaching danger. From this circumstance it is said the Rock got its present name, but in so far as can now be discovered, there is no record of this contrivance; and it seems more probable that, at an early period before the wasting effects of the sea had brought the Rock into a state so low and mutilated, some part of it may have resembled a bell in appearance, and have thus given rise to the name.

Although the dangers and the inconveniences of this Rock, and of the coast in general, were long and severely felt by the shipping of the eastern coast of Great Britain; yet, till of late, there was no constituted body for the erection of light-houses in Bell Rock. Scotland; such an appointment necessarily supposes a more extensive trade than that part of the united kingdom possessed prior to the union of England and Scotland; and even long after that happy event, the finances of the country were not in a state to warrant expensive undertakings of this nature. About the middle of the last century, however, when the improvement of the highlands and islands of Scotland was viewed as an object of great national importance, the establishment of lighthouses upon that coast was found indispensably necessary to the extension and success of the British Fisheries. This subject was accordingly agitated in the Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland; and, in the year 1786, a bill was brought into Parliament, appointing the Lord Advocate and Solicitor-General of Scotland, the Sheriffs-depute of the maritime counties, and the chief Magistrates of certain of the Royal Burghs, ex officio, to act under the title of the Commissioners of the Northern Light-houses; and a certain duty on tonnage upon shipping was granted to them, for the erection and maintenance of such light-houses as they should find necessary to erect upon the coast of Scotland. But when a sufficient number of Light-houses are erected upon the coast, and a fund accumulated for their maintenance, the act provides, that the lighthouse duties shall cease and determine. These Commissioners, in virtue of the powers vested in them, proceeded to the immediate improvement of such accessible points of the coast as suited the infant state of their funds; and, in the course of a few years, eight of the principal headlands between the Firths of Forth and Clyde, including the Orkney Islands, were provided with light-houses, erected upon the most approved principles of the time, by the late Mr Smith, engineer for the Lighthouse Board. Keeping always in view as a principal object the erection of a light-house on the Bell Rock, the Commissioners, independently of these highly useful and important works, were gradually accumulating a fund for this purpose, in order to undertake that work as soon as their limited means would admit. In the month of December 1799, the occurrence of a dreadful storm rather tended to hasten this measure. The wind for two days was excessive, and being from the south-eastern direction, all the ships were driven from their moorings in the Downs and Yarmouth Roads. No fewer than about 70 vessels were wrecked, and with many of their crews were totally lost, upon the eastern coast of Scotland; a calamity that more especially directed the attention of the country and of the Commissioners, to the erection of a light-house upon this Rock; as, in this particular instance, a lighthouse there would have opened the Firth of Forth, as a place of safety to many, which, to avoid the hidden dangers of the Rock, were lost in attempting to get to the northward of the Firth in this storm.

After the loss of so many lives, and much valuable property, various measures were taken for the erection of a light-house upon this Rock. In the year 1803, a bill was brought into Parliament, which, with some alterations, ultimately passed both Houses, in the session of 1806; by which Bell Rock, the northern light duty of three halfpence per ton on British vessels, and threepence per ton on foreign bottoms, was extended to all vessels sailing to or from any port between Peterhead to the north, and Berwick-upon-Tweed to the southward. This bill also empowered the commissioners to borrow L.25,000 from the three per cent. consols, and having already accumulated the sum of L.20,000 of surplus duties, with this loan from Government they were enabled to commence the operations at the Bell Rock with a disposable fund of L.45,000.

Several plans for the erection of this light-house had for a considerable time been in contemplation, and were submitted for consideration of the Light-House Commissioners. Captain Brodie of the Navy constructed a very ingenious model of a cast-iron light-house to stand upon pillars; and Mr Murdoch Downie, author of several marine surveys, brought forward a plan of a light-house, to stand upon pillars of stone. Mr Telford, the engineer, was likewise employed in some preliminary steps, connected with Mr Downie's inquiries. In the year 1800, Mr Stevenson, engineer for the Commissioners of the Northern Light-houses, modelled a design applicable to this situation; and having, by their directions, made a survey and report relative to the situation of the Bell Rock, which was published by the Board, along with a letter from Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, when he commanded his Majesty's ship Hynd, upon the Leith station, in 1793, recommending the erection of a light-house on this Rock; these, with other documents, were afterwards submitted to Parliament, in a memorial from the Commissioners, drawn up by Robert Hamilton, Esq. advocate, one of their number; when application was made for a loan from Government. So different, however, were the views taken of the subject, and so various and doubtful were the opinions of the public about the kind and description of building best suited to the peculiar situation of the Rock, and even with regard to the practicability of a work so much under the surface of the water, and where so large a sum of money was necessarily to be expended, that the Commissioners thought it advisable to submit the matter to the opinion and advice of Mr Rennie. This eminent engineer coincided with Mr Stevenson in preferring a building of stone upon the principles of the Eddystone light-house, which being approved of and adopted, the execution of the work was finally committed to those gentlemen.

The bill having passed late in the session of 1806, in the following summer a vessel was fitted out as a floating light, for which the act of Parliament made provision, and she was accordingly moored off the Bell Rock in the month of July 1807. During the first season of the operations, this vessel was used as a Tender, to which the artificers retired while the Rock was covered with water. Her station was about a mile and a half north-east from the Bell Rock, and her moorings consisted of a mushroom anchor, weighing 33 cwt. and a weighty chain laid down in 22 fathoms water, and at these moorings she rode by Bell Rock. a strong hempen cable, measuring 14 inches in circumference, without accident, during the four years in which the light-house was building. This vessel was rigged with three masts, each of which carried a lantern, which, in a curious manner, was made to embrace the masts; and, by this means, the use of cumbrous yards and spars over head were avoided; and as each mast passed through the centre of its respective lantern, on which it traversed, the light was not obscured on any side. Each of these lanterns contained ten lamps, with as many small silver-plated reflectors; and thus, by the appearance of three distinct lights (the centre one being the highest), the Bell Rock floating-light formed a triangular light, and was easily distinguishable from the double and single lights upon the coast, and rendered immediate and essential service to the trade and shipping of the coast.

Early in the spring of 1807, stones were collected from the granite quarries of Rubeslaw in Aberdeenshire, for the outside casing of the first 30 feet, or lower part of the building; those of sandstone for the hearthing, or interior of the solid, and also for the higher parts of the building, were got from Mylnefield quarry, near Dundee. For the convenience of the work, the cornice and parapet-wall of the light-room were hewn and prepared at Edinburgh, and the stones for these parts were accordingly taken from the quarry of Craigleith. At Arbroath, the most contiguous harbour to the Bell Rock, a piece of ground for a work-yard was procured on a lease of seven years, the supposed period for the duration of the works; and here the works were conducted; materials were laid down, and workmen collected; shades were also constructed, and a barrack erected for the accommodation of about 100 artificers when they landed from the Rock, that they might be at a call, by night or day, when required to sail for the works at the Rock. These previous steps being taken ashore, the operations at the Rock itself commenced in the month of August 1807.

The first attention at the Bell Rock was to erect a place of refuge for the artificers, in the event of an accident befalling any of the attending-boats,—a circumstance which, if unprovided for, might not only involve the safety of every person employed at the out-works, but prove a serious check to the future progress of the undertaking, which could only be proceeded in at low water of spring-tides, when two and a half or three hours were considered a good tide's work. From this circumstance, it became necessary to embrace every opportunity of favourable weather, as well in the day tides as under night by torch-light, and upon Sundays. In the early stages of the business; the flood-tide no sooner began to cover the exterior parts of the Rock, than the workmen were obliged to collect their tools and apparatus, and betake themselves to the attending-boats, before the water burst in upon them. These boats were rowed often with the utmost fatigue and difficulty to the floating-light, where the workmen remained till the Rock began to make its appearance again at next ebb-tide. Happily no accident occurred during this perilous part of the work, to check the ardour of the artificers, nor to retard their progress, and by the latter end of October, the beacon, consisting of twelve large beams of fir-timber, was erected, having a common base of 30 feet, and rising to the height of 50 feet above the surface of the Rock. These spars were of fir-timber, strongly framed with oak-knees, connected to the Rock with iron-bats of a particular construction, set into holes, cut about 18 inches in depth, and wedged into their places, first with slips of fir, then with slips of oak, and, lastly, with pieces of iron. The upper part of this beacon was afterwards fitted up, and occupied as a place of residence during the working months. The lower floor was employed as a smith's forge, and also for preparing mortar for the building. The cook-house was immediately over this; the next floor was occupied by the cabins of the engineer and foremen, and over all was the barracks for the artificers, whose hammocks were ranged in tiers of five in height. The dwelling or lodging part of this temporary residence was above the reach of the sea in moderate weather, but the lower floor was often lifted by the waves, when the lime casks, and even the smith's anvil and apparatus, were frequently washed away. The beacon-house, so constructed, was erected near the site of the light-house, and in the more advanced state of the work, was connected with it by a wooden bridge; which was also of the greatest utility as a stage in raising the materials from the Rock to the building. A little reflection upon the singular position and circumstances of the Bell Rock, will show the great and indispensable use of this beacon-house in facilitating the operations. Unless some expedient of this kind had been resorted to at a work so much under water, the possibility of erecting a light-house here is extremely doubtful: at any rate, it must have required a much longer period for its accomplishment, and, in all probability, many lives would have been lost in the progress of the operations.

The circumstance of the beams of the beacon having withstood the storms of winter, inspired new confidence in the artificers, who now landed upon the Rock in the summer of 1808 with freedom, and remained upon it without fear till the tide flowed over it. Although it required a considerable part of the summer to fit up the beacon as a barrack, yet it was in a state sufficient to preserve the workmen in case of accident to the boats. The great personal risk and excessive fatigue of rowing boats, crowded with the artificers, every tide to the floating light-vessel was now also avoided by an additional vessel having this season been provided, and entirely set apart for the purpose of attending the Rock. This vessel was a very fine schooner of 80 tons. Her moorings were so constructed, that she could be cast loose at pleasure, and brought to the lee-side of the Rock, where she might at once take up the artificers and their boats in bad weather, instead of their having, as formerly, to row often against both wind and tide, to the more distant position of the floating light. From this circumstance, it was now found practicable both to commence the works at the Rock much earlier, and to continue them to a later period. Being now provided with a place of safety, by the erection of the spars of the beacon-house, and having a Bell Rock, tender always at command, which could be cast loose, in case of need, the works now went forward even in pretty rough weather; and thus struggling both during the night and day tides, the site of the lighthouse was prepared, and cut to a sufficient depth into the Rock; and on the 10th of July 1808, the foundation stone of the building was laid. In the course of this season, tracks of cast-iron railways were also fixed upon the Rock, from the different landing places to the building, calculated for conveying blocks of stone of two or three tons weight along the Rock; and by the latter end of the season's operations the first four courses of the Light-house were built, which brought it to the height of five feet six inches above the foundation.

In the course of the winter preceding the third season's operations, the works at the Rock were frequently visited, and, in the spring of the year 1809, were resumed with new vigour; and it was no small happiness to find, that not only the four courses of the light-house built last season were in perfect order, after a long and severe winter, without the least shift or change of position, but that even the beacon-house and railways were little injured, being almost in a state of readiness for resuming the operations. The first thing to be done was to lay down sets of chain moorings, with floating buoys for the tender, and for the flush-decked pram-boat, stone lighters, and vessels employed at the Rock, and to erect the necessary apparatus and machinery for landing the stones, and laying them in their places upon the building. These arrangements being made, every thing went forward in the most prosperous manner; and, by the month of September, the building was got to the height of 30 feet, which completed the solid part of the light-house. After obtaining this height, from the advanced state of the season, Mr Stevenson did not find it advisable to risk the machinery and apparatus longer, and the building was left in this state for the winter months.

At the commencement of the fourth and last season's work, it was a matter of some importance for the preparation of the higher or finishing parts of the building, to ascertain whether it would be possible to carry the masonry from the height of 30 feet to 100 feet in the course of this summer; but it was extremely doubtful whether this could be accomplished, so as to secure good weather for fitting up the light-room, and completing the more delicate operations of the painter and glazier, connected with it. Under these uncertain prospects, the work was begun in 1810, at as early a period as the weather would at all admit. From the great number of finished courses of prepared stone at the work-yard, which had been tried upon the platform, numbered and ready to be shipped from Arbroath for the Rock, there was only the winds and tides to contend with; and even these were, in effect, wonderfully softened and allayed, by the enterprising exertions and thorough practice of the seamen and artificers, during four successive seasons; which had given much dexterity to the several departments, both in the work-yard at Arbroath, and at the Rock, where the operations of the builder and of the landing-master's crew were conducted with much skill and activity.

Taking these mainly into account, and by a fortunate train of circumstances, the masonry of the building was completed in October; and the light-room being finished in the month of December, the light was advertised to the public, and exhibited for the first time from the new Light-house on the evening of the 1st of February 1811; and, on the same night, the floating light-vessel was unmoored, and that temporary light discontinued.

Having thus given a general account of the Bell Rock, and the erection of the Light-house, we shall now describe the building, noticing its principal dimensions, and making such farther remarks as may appear interesting to the reader. The Bell Rock Light-house is a circular building, the foundation-stone of which is nearly on a level with the surface of the sea at low-water of ordinary spring-tides; and consequently at high-water of these tides, the building is immersed to the height of about 15 feet. The two first or lower courses of the masonry are imbedded or sunk into the rock, and the stones of all the courses are curiously dovetailed and joined with each other, forming one connected mass from the centre to the circumference. The successive courses of the work are also attached to each other by joggles of stone; and, to prevent the stones from being lifted up by the force of the sea, while the work was in progress, each stone of the solid part of the building had two holes bored through it, entering six inches into the course immediately below, into which oaken tree-nails, two inches in diameter, were driven, after Mr Smeaton's plan at the Eddystone Light-house. The cement used at the Bell Rock, like that of the Eddystone, was a mixture of pozzolano, earth, lime, and sand, in equal parts, by measure. The building is of a circular form, composed of stones of the weight of from two tons to half a ton each. The ground course measures 42 feet in diameter, and the building diminishes, as may be observed from the plate of the light-house, as it rises to the top, where the parapet-wall of the light-room measures only 13 feet in diameter. The height of the masonry is 100 feet, but including the light-room, the total height is 115 feet. The building is solid from the ground course to the height of 30 feet, where the entry-door is situate, to which the ascent is by a kind of rope-ladder with wooden steps, hung out at ebb-tide, and taken into the building again when the water covers the Rock; but strangers to this sort of climbing are taken up in a kind of chair, by a small moveable crane projected from the door, from which a narrow passage leads to a stone stair-case 13 feet in height. Here the walls are seven feet in thickness, but they gradually diminish from the top of the stair-case, to the parapet-wall of the light-room, where they measure one foot in thickness. The upper half of the building may be described as divided into six apartments for the use of the light-keepers, and for containing light-house stores. The lower or first of these floors, formed by an inside scarcement of the walls at the top of the stair-case, is chiefly occupied with water tanks, fuel, and the other bulky articles; the second floor is for the oil cisterns, glass and other light-room stores; the third is occupied as a kitchen; the fourth is the bed-room, Bell Rock, the fifth the library or strangers' room, and the upper apartment forms the light-room. The floors of the several apartments are of stone, and the communication from the one to the other, is made by means of wooden ladders, excepting in the light-room, where every article being fire proof, the steps are made of iron. There are two windows in each of the three lower apartments, but the upper rooms have each four windows. The casements of the windows are all double, and are glazed with plate-glass, having besides an outer storm-shutter, or dead-light of timber, to defend the glass from the waves and sprays of the sea. The parapet-wall of the light-room is six feet in height, and has a door which leads out to the balcony or walk formed by the cornice round the upper part of the building; which is surrounded by a cast-iron rail, curiously wrought like net-work. This rail rests upon batts of brass, and has a massive coping or top rail of the same metal.

In the kitchen, there is a kind of grate or open fire-place of cast-iron, with a smoke tube of the same metal which passes through the several apartments to the light-room, and heats them in its passage upwards. This grate and chimney mercly touch the building, without being included or built into the walls, which, by this means, are neither weakened, nor liable to be injured by it. The timber of the doors, and the pannelled partitioning of the rooms from the stairs, and also of the bed frames and furniture in general, is of wainscot.

The light-room and its apparatus was entirely framed and prepared at Edinburgh. It is of an octagonal figure, measuring 12 feet across, and 15 feet in height, formed with cast-iron sashes, or window frames glazed with large plates of polished glass, measuring about 2 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 3 inches, each plate being of the thickness of a quarter of an inch. The light-room is covered with a dome roof of copper, terminating in a large gilded ball, with a vent-hole in the top.

The light of the Bell Rock is very powerful, and when the atmosphere is clear. The light is from oil, with Argand burners placed in the focus of silver-plated reflectors, measuring 24 inches over the lips; the silvered surface or face being hollowed or wrought to the parabolic curve. That the Bell Rock light may be easily distinguished from all other lights upon the coast, the reflectors are ranged upon a frame with four faces or sides, which, by a train of machinery, is made to revolve upon a perpendicular axis once in six minutes. Between the observer and the reflectors, on two opposite sides of the revolving frame, shades of red glass are interposed, in such a manner, that, during each entire revolution of the reflectors, two appearances, distinctly differing from each other, are produced; one is the common bright light familiar to every one, but, on the other, or shaded sides, the rays are tinged of a red colour. These red and bright lights, in the course of each revolution, alternate with intervals of darkness, which, in a very beautiful and simple manner, characterize this light.

As a farther warning to the mariner, in foggy weather, two large bells, weighing about 12 cwt. are Bell Rock. tolled day and night by the same train of machinery which moves the lights. As these bells, in moderate weather, may be heard considerably beyond the limits of the Rock, vessels, by this means, get warning to put about, and are thereby prevented from running upon the Rock in thick and hazy weather; a disaster to which ships might otherwise be liable, notwithstanding the erection of the light-house.

Prior to, or about the time of the erection of the Light-Bell Rock light-house, it was by no means uncommon to meet with various doubts, regarding the practicability of the works, expressed in such terms as the following: "That, even if it were practicable to erect a light-house, upon such a sunken rock, no one would be found hardy enough to live in an abode so dread and dreary, and that it would fall to the lot of the projectors themselves to possess it for the first winter." But the reverse of all this took place; for the confidence of the public had been confirmed by the stability as well of the wooden-beacon-house, as of the building itself, which, in its progressive rise, withstood the storms of two successive winters, in an unfinished state; so that, by the time the house was ready for its inhabitants, the applications for the place of light-keepers were much more numerous than the situations; and applicants on both sides of the Tweed were disappointed in their wishes.

The establishment of light-keepers at the Bell Rock, consists of a principal light-keeper, who has at the rate of 60 guineas per annum, paid quarterly; a principal assistant, who has 55 guineas; and two other assistants at 50 guineas each; besides a suit of uniform clothes, in common with the other light-keepers of the Northern Light-houses, every three years. While at the rock, these men get a stated allowance of bread, beef, butter, oat-meal, pot-barley, and vegetables, besides small beer, and an allowance of fourpence per day each for the purchase of tea and other necessaries. At Arbroath, the most contiguous town on the opposite coast, a suite of buildings has been erected, where each light-keeper has three apartments for his family. Here the master and mate of the light-house tender have also accommodation for their families; a plot or piece of an inclosed garden ground is attached to each house, and likewise a seat in one of the pews in the parish church of Arbroath. Connected with these buildings, there is a signal tower erected, which is about 50 feet in height. At the top of it, there is a room with an excellent five feet achromatic telescope, placed upon a stand. From this tower, a set of corresponding signals is arranged, and kept up with the light-keepers at the rock. Three of the light-keepers are always at the light-house, while one is ashore on liberty, whose duty it is for the time to attend the signal room; and when the weather will admit of the regular removal of the light-keepers they are six weeks at the rock, and a fortnight ashore with their families.

The attending vessel for the Bell Rock, and the light-houses of the Isle of May and Inchkeith, in the Firth of Forth, is a very handsome little cutter of about 50 tons register, carrying upon her prow a Bell Rock model of the Bell Rock light-house, and is appropriately named the Pharos. She is stationed at Arbroath, and is in readiness to proceed for the Rock at new and full moon, or at spring-tides, carrying necessaries, and the light-keeper on leave, to the Rock, and returning with another. This vessel is navigated by four men, including the master, and is calculated for carrying a boat of 16 feet keel, or of sufficient dimensions for landing at the Rock in moderate weather. The master and mate are kept in constant pay, and have apartments in the establishment ashore; the former, acting as a superintendent, has the charge of the buildings and stores kept at Arbroath.

The expence of the Bell Rock light-house, and its establishment, in a general way, may be stated to have amounted to about L60,000. The undertaking does much honour to the exertions of the Commissioners of the Northern Light-houses, and is even creditable to the age which has produced it; especially when it is remembered, that it was commenced and completed amidst the difficulties and demands of a war, unparalleled in the history of our country.

Our readers will perceive, that the account we have given of this Edifice is, necessarily, of a very general nature; but the public, we believe, will soon be gratified with an ample Historical Account of the Northern Light-houses, including a full detail of the whole operations connected with the Bell Rock light-house, and the Carr Rock Stone-Beacon, illustrated with numerous plates, showing the progressive stages of these works, by Mr Stevenson; and we are happy to learn, that the Commissioners of the Northern Light-houses, from a conviction of the utility of the design, have, as a Board, liberally expressed their desire to promote the intended publication of Mr Stevenson, whose name, as an Engineer, is so creditably connected with these two important national undertakings.