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From: Concord Monitor
Date: 20080323
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Henry David Thoreau once stayed overnight at the Highland Light. Here is in excerpt from what he wrote about it in Cape Cod, which was published posthumously, in 1865.

It was a neat building, with everything in apple-pie order, and no danger of anything rusting there for want of oil. The light consisted of fifteen argand lamps, placed within smooth concave reflectors twenty-one inches in diameter, and arranged in two horizontal circles one above the other, facing every way excepting directly down the Cape. . . .

I thought it a pity that some poor student did not live there, to profit by all ...

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