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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: site of the operations, and also from the tracks leading to
the different landing-places; for walking upon the rugged
surface of the Bell Rock, when covered with seaweed, was found
to be extremely difficult and even dangerous. Every hand that
could possibly be occupied now employed in assisting the smith
to fit up the apparatus for his forge. At 9 p.m. the boats
returned to the tender, after other two hours' work, in the
same order as formerly - perhaps as much gratified with the
success that attended the work of this day as with any other
in the whole course of the operations. Although it could not
he said that the fatigues of this day had been great, yet all
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