e afterwards went to Leith to see the
SMEATON
then loading for the Bell Rock. On stepping on board
Mrs.
Dickson seemed to be quite overcome with so many concurrent
circumstances
tending in a peculiar manner to revive and enliven the
memory of her departed father
and
on leaving the vessel
she would not
be restrained from presenting the crew with a piece of money. The
SMEATON had been named spontaneously
from a sense of the obligation
which a public work of the description of the Bell Rock owed to the
labours and abilities of Mr. Smeaton. The writer certainly never could
have anticipated the satisfaction which he this day felt in witnessing the
pleasure it afforded to the only representative of this great man's family.
[Friday
20th July]
The gale from the N.E. still continued so strong
accompanied with a
heavy sea
that the PATRIOT could not approach her moorings; and
although the tender still kept her station
no landing was made to-day at
the rock. At high- water it was remarked that the spray rose to the height
of about sixty feet upon the building. The SMEATON now lay in Leith
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