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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: happiness to find that the beacon had withstood the violence
of the gale and the heavy breach of sea, everything being
found in the same state in which it had been left on the 21st.
The artificers were now enabled to work upon the rock
throughout the whole day, both at low and high water, but it
required the strictest attention to the state of the weather,
in case of their being overtaken with a gale, which might
prevent the possibility of getting them off the rock.
Two somewhat memorable circumstances in the annals of the
Bell Rock attended the operations of this day: one was the
removal of Mr. James Dove, the foreman smith, with his
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