"He's going on well, and is fast asleep," was the answer.  We were by this time near enough to the Eddystone lighthouse to distinguish its form and colour.  At high-water, the rock on which it stands is covered to the depth of fourteen feet, so that it then literally rises out of the sea.  Its predecessor was erected by Smeaton in 1759, about fourteen miles south of Plymouth Breakwater; but the rocks on which it was built were gradually undermined by the waves, and it had to be replaced by a new building on a firmer foundation.