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Light-Houses and Light-vessels.

--The number of light-house stations on the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific coasts, in charge of the United States, is 323, exhibiting 369 lights; number of light-vessel stations on the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts, is 42, and the number of lights exhibited by them is 55--making a total of 365 light stations, and 424 lights. On the Lake coasts of the United States, there are 91 light stations, exhibiting its lights, marking a grand total of 456 light stations of all the coasts of the United States, and the number of lights exhibited at all those stations, 539.

The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1860. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 22, 1860. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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