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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Newport, capture of (search)
height, resting upon arches supported by eight columns. It was originally covered with stucco within and without, and on digging to the foundation-stones of one of the supporting columns many years ago, they were found to be composed of hewn spheres. This structure is a hard nut for antiquaries and historians to crack. Some regard it as a Scandinavian structure of great antiquity, and others as a windmill built by some of the early colonists of Rhode Island. Gov. Benedict Arnold Old Stone Tower, Newport. speaks of it in his will (1677) as his stone-built windmill. Peter Easton, another early settler, says in his diary for 1663: This year we built our first windmill. Easton built it himself of wood, and for his enterprise he was rewarded by the colony with a strip of land on the ocean front, known as Easton's Beach. Such a novel structure as this tower, if built for a windmill, would have received more than a local notice. No chronicler of the day refers to it, nor is it me
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Signals, (search)
d with canvas, in which is a plate of lead on each side, of sufficient Permanent signals.—no. 1 weight to sink the book in case a vessel is about to strike her colors. As each nation has its peculiar signal-books, this precaution is necessary, so as not to have the secrets of one revealed to the other. Certain flags indicate certain numbers, from 1 to 9; and these numerals, by combination, indicate sentences which are given in the key by coresponding numbers. The pennants rep- Signal-Tower. resent duplicate. In the engraving (No. 1) are nine different flags, with their numbers, and four pennants. With these flags and pennants about 100,000 different signals may be given. A frequent change in the arrangement of signal-flags is necessary for obvious reasons. The code of signals used in the United States navy just previous to the late Civil War was proposed by a board of naval officers, and adopted by the Navy Department in 1857. Another board, in 1859, tested and approved a