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Skerryvore's construction challenges

From the great difficulty of access to the inhospitable rock of Skerryvore... the erection of a Light Tower on its small and rugged surface has always been regarded as an undertaking of the most formidable kind
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Sodiscouraging was the consideration of expense, and the uncertainty of the final success of such a work… to delay the construction of the Skerryvore Lighthouse till the present time
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The first landing that my Father... effected on Skerryvore, was in the year 1804. In 1814, he visited it a second time
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The swell, which ,in a greater or less degree, almost constantly prevails, is apt to impel, or seemingly draw the boat as by a kind of suction, upon the rock
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The workmen were, in that respect, often sorely tried, and many inconvenient accidents occurred from falls. It was after one of these trials of patience... climbing up the side of a bottle
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Space: Account Of The Skerryvore Lighthouse by Allan Stevenson 1848

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