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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: distressing and ill-fated circumstances.
[Saturday, 17th June]
At eight a.m. the artificers and sailors, forty-five in
number, landed on the rock, and after four hours' work seven
stones were laid. The remainder of this tide, from the
threatening appearance of the weather, was occupied in
trenailing and making all things as secure as possible. At
twelve noon the rock and building were again overflowed, when
the masons and seamen went on board of the tender, but Mr.
Watt, with his squad of ten men, remained on the beacon
throughout the day. As it blew fresh from the N.W. in the
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