The northern coast is lined with small lighthouses, most of them built of local stone during the long century of coastal trade. Many still stand, though few are lit.
Each tower was tended by a keeper who lived at its foot with a family, a goat and a logbook. The logbooks record weather, passing ships and, more often than anyone expected, the birds.
Keepers were paid in coin and lamp oil. The oil was measured weekly by an inspector who travelled the coast by cart, and whose own diaries complain mostly about the roads.
Today the logbooks are kept in a regional archive, where readers can request them by tower and year. Their margins are full of small drawings of boats, clouds and the occasional sea creature that nobody else ever reported.
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