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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: so keenly had the workmen entered into the spirit of the
beacon-house operations, that they continued to bore the holes
in the rock till some of them were knee-deep in water.
The operations at this time were entirely directed to the
erection of the beacon, in which every man felt an equal
interest, as at this critical period the slightest casualty to
any of the boats at the rock might have been fatal to himself
individually, while it was perhaps peculiar to the writer more
immediately to feel for the safety of the whole. Each log or
upright beam of the beacon was to be fixed to the rock by two
strong and massive bats or stanchions of iron. These bats,
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