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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: the movement of thousands of fish. They were almost
exclusively of the species called the podlie, or young coal-
fish. This discovery, made for the first time to-day by the
workmen, was considered fortunate, as an additional
circumstance likely to produce an inclination among the
artificers to take up their residence in the beacon, when it
came to be fitted up as a barrack.
[Tuesday, 7th June]
At three o'clock in the morning the ship's bell was rung
as the signal for landing at the rock. When the landing was
to be made before breakfast, it was customary to give each of
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