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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: than a liquid substance. The effect of these seas, as they
raged among the beams and dashed upon the higher parts of the
beacon, produced a temporary tremulous motion throughout the
whole fabric, which to a stranger must have been frightful.
[Sunday, 1st July]
The writer had now been at the Bell Rock since the latter
end of May, or about six weeks, during four of which he had
been a constant inhabitant of the beacon without having been
once off the rock. After witnessing the laying of the sixty-
seventh or second course of the bedroom apartment, he left the
rock with the tender and went ashore, as some arrangements
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