I found it in google books on page 52. The miles is 1 1/2 (that's 1 and 1/2 miles). No wonder it didn't scan well not only is it a fraction, it is in italics.
The second passage should read At one time or another, at least twelve separate light stations have guarded the county's shores: the lighthouses at False Duck Island (built in 1829), Point Petre (1833), Presqu'ile Point (1854), Scotch Bonnet Reef (1856), Point Pleasant (1866), Telegraph Island (1870), Salmon Point (1871), Point Traverse (1881), Prince Edward Point (1881), Makatewis Island (1894), Onderdonk Point (1911), and Main Duck Island (1913). But time has been as hard on these old lighthouses as the county itself has been on ships. All but a few of the lighthouses have been abandoned, and most have fallen into ruins or disappeared altogether.
Google didn't give me the whole page, I had to put in each of the names that I knew so it would show the text around them. But for Makatewis Island, it wouldn't show the name no matter what I put in. So, I searched I don't know how many internet sites for island names in that part of Ontario until I put Makatewis into the google books search and it showed I was finally correct. But I did get all twelve of them!
Misha Scott Berry wrote:
This passage is also messed up there are some Islands that I can't figure out. At one time or another, at least twelve separate light stations have guarded the county's shores: the lighthouses at False Duck Island (built in 1829), Point Petre (1833), Presquile Point (1854), Scotch Bonnet Reef (1856), Point Pleasant (1866), Telegraph Island (1870), Point (1854), Scotch Bonnet Reef (1856), Point Pleasant (1866), Telegraph Island (1870), Island (1894), Onderdonk Point (1911), and Main Duck Island (1913). But time has been as hard on these old lighthouses as the county itself has been on ships. All but a few of the lighthouses have been abandoned, and most have fallen into ruins or disappeared altogether.The oldest lighthouse in the county stood for many years on False Duck Island, which, as you might guess, was often mistaken by ships' pilots for Main Duck Island. Built of concrete and stone at a cost of approximately 1,000 British pounds ($3,890), the station featured a sixty-three-foot tower displaying a fixed white light provided by oil lamps.One night in 1905 an extraordinarily powerful trident of lightning struck the station, blasting apart the lantern room and burning the dwelling and oil house to the ground. Keeper DoScott BerryMCP Linux user number 509373 Email: scottbb1973@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:scottbb1973@xxxxxxxxx> Msn: electronicman1960@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:electronicman1960@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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