CHAPTER V

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OPERATIONS OF 1839.

Shipping station and pier at Hynish -- Granite quarries in Mull -- Observations on the quarrying of granite -- Dressing of the Lighthouse blocks -- Excavation of foundation for the Lighthouse Tower on the Skerryvore Rock -- Fitting up of the second barrack on the Rock -- Sudden death of George Middlemiss -- Wharf and landing-place on the Rock -- Ring-bolts, water-tanks, and railways -- Incidents of the season -- Effects of a gale from the south-west -- Mutiny of the crew -- Near approach of the vessels to the Rock, and other circumstances shewing the importance of a Light on the Skerryvore, 107

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