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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: in diameter, and yet it was drawn off in the course of about
half an hour. After this the artificers commenced with their
picks and continued at work for two hours and a half, some of
the sailors being at the same time busily employed in clearing
the foundation of chips and in conveying the irons to and from
the smiths on the beacon, where they were sharped. At eight
o'clock the sea broke in upon us and overflowed the
foundation-pit, when the boats returned to the tender.
[Thursday, 7th July]
The landing-master's bell rung this morning about four
o'clock, and at half-past five, the foundation being cleared,
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