Inauguración de un faro en el nuevo muelle del puerto

FIXED AND FLASHING LIGHT AT BARCELLONA.
Also, at the same date [December 30 1859], that in the place of the fixed red light hitherto shown from the Mole at Barcellona, south coast of Spain, a light would be exhibited from the extremity of the eastern Mole, at the center of the Mole Head, now completed. The light is a fixed white light, varied every four minutes by a red flash. It is elevated 43 feet above the mean level of the sea, and should be visible in ordinary weather from a distance of 9 miles. The illuminating apparatus is dioptric, or by lenses of the fourth order. The light-tower is octagonal, and of a brick color. It stands in latitude 41° 22′ 10″ north, longitude 2° 11′ 11″ east from Greenwich. In addition to the above light, and at the distance of 295 yards from it, another light of a green and white color is shown at the extremity of the glacis, or ledge of stones, now being placed to protect the pierhead.