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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: feet above the general surface of the ocean. The Bell Rock
Lighthouse may therefore now be considered at from eight to
ten feet above the height of the waves; and, although the
sprays and heavy seas have often been observed, in the present
state of the building, to rise to the height of fifty feet,
and fall with a tremendous noise on the beacon-house, yet such
seas were not likely to make any impression on a mass of solid
masonry, containing about 1400 tons,
[Wednesday, 30th Aug.]
The whole of the artificers left the rock at mid-day,
when the tender made sail for Arbroath, which she reached
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