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Lighthouses and Lightships
It was erected about 280 B.o., during the reign of King Ptolemaeus Philadelphus, on the strip of shining calcareous rock lying about a mile off Alexandria that sheltered both its ancient ports - the Greater Harbour and the Haven of Happy Return - from the fury of the north Wind and the occasional high tides of the Mediterranean. Its site was a kind of rocky peninsula at the east end of the island, and it stood conspicuous from its great height and the whiteness of the stone of which it was constructed. Whether the light it sup plied was obtained from an ordinary fire, or some more effective system of illumination, we have no means of.
In the Far East
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