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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: who assisted at landing the stones. Those daily at work upon
the rock at this period amounted to forty-six. A cabin had
been laid out for the writer on the beacon, but his apartment
had been the last which was finished, and he had not yet taken
possession of it; for though he generally spent the greater
part of the day, at this time, upon the rock, yet he always
slept on board of the tender.
[Friday, 11th Aug.]
The wind was at S. E. on the 11th, and there was so very
heavy a swell of sea upon the rock that no boat could approach
it.
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