VISIBLE AT SEVENTY MILES.
'Hit? tallest lighthouse on the coasts of the l"nit»tl Stales i- at Cape Hatterns, 20Hft. hi-ih. The brightest light i' on the N'aresink Highands, at the southern entrance to New York Harlioiir. Its candle-power ii ahout ?o,(IOO,OCO; it is visible twenty-two miles away, and it lias been seen from ii distance of .seventy miles at sea under iinn.-nal conditions of the atmosphere. The hiyhest light is at CVftie Mendocino, Califcriiia. 422 ft. aliore sea-level. The first lighthouse, on tho American continent was built in 1715-16 at the eiitrnnc ■ to Roston Harbour.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 288, 29 June 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)
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95VISIBLE AT SEVENTY MILES. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 288, 29 June 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)
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