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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: operations at the rock, the work proceeded with much energy,
through the exertions both of the seamen and artificers. For
the more speedy and effectual working of the several tackles
in raising the materials as the building advanced in height,
and there being a great extent of railway to attend to, which
required constant repairs, two additional millwrights were
added to the complement on the rock, which, including the
writer, now counted thirty-one in all. So crowded was the
men's barrack that the beds were ranged five tier in height,
allowing only about one foot eight inches for each bed. The
artificers commenced this morning at five o'clock, and, in the
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