We made our way to the new lighthouse, which is of granite.  Twenty-nine feet above high-water mark, it is of solid masonry; in the next eighteen feet there is a well-staircase seven feet in diameter, all the courses being secured in the most perfect manner.  Having climbed up by thirteen gun-metal steps, wedged into the solid granite, we reached the entrance port.  As may be supposed, we had to stretch our legs to get up to it. We ascended the staircase by twenty-eight steps to a room containing three iron water-tanks, holding a thousand gallons, with a coal-cellar below it.  Here a crane is fixed for hoisting in stores.  Seventeen more steps led us to the oil room.  The arched granite floors are composed of twelve radiating blocks of granite, dovetailed to a centre stone nine inches thick in the centre, and one foot seven inches in circumference. A slated floor is cemented on to the surface of the granite.  Another seventeen steps took us up to the store-room, in which the meat and bread casks are kept.  Ascending a third series of seventeen steps, we arrived at the living room, the walls of which are two feet six inches thick.  Here is a cooking-range with an oven, a bookcase, tables, etcetera.  A fourth series took us to the bedroom, in which there are five berths; and by a fifth staircase of seventeen steps we reach the watch-room, immediately below the lantern; but there is no seat, as the keeper is not allowed to sit down during his watch.  Sixteen more steps we mounted, making altogether one hundred and twenty-nine, when we arrived at the lantern.  The apparatus is of the first catadioptric order, lighted by a first-class pressure lamp.  By it stands the machine for striking the fog-bell, which weighs three hundredweight, and sounds about every two seconds by means of a double clapper.  There is also a flagstaff, by means of which the light-keepers can hoist signals to passing vessels.  The total height of masonry above high-water mark is one hundred and fifteen feet six inches; and the diameter of the tower over the outside of the cornice is twenty-one feet.  Although not so lofty, this magnificent lighthouse is a far stronger structure than that of the Eddystone.