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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: perhaps broken by sea-fowl.
Having on this occasion continued upon the building and
beacon a considerable time after the tide had begun to flow,
the artificers were occupied in removing the forge from the
top of the building, to which the gangway or wooden bridge
gave great facility; and, although it stretched or had a span
of forty-two feet, its construction was extremely simple,
while the road-way was perfectly firm and steady. In
returning from this visit to the rock every one was pretty
well soused in spray before reaching the tender at two o'clock
p.m., where things awaited the landing party in as comfortable
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