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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: [Thursday, 1st June]
This morning, at a quarter-past eight, the artificers
were landed as usual, and, after three hours and three-
quarters' work, five stones were laid, the greater part of
this tide having been taken up in completing the boring and
trenailing of the stones formerly laid. At noon the writer,
with the seamen and artificers, proceeded to the tender,
leaving on the beacon the joiners, and several of those who
were troubled with sea-sickness - among whom was Mr. Logan,
who remained with Mr. Watt - counting altogether eleven
persons. During the first and middle parts of these twenty-
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