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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: artificers as the seamen had shown when relieved of the
continual trouble of carrying the smith's bellows off the rock
prior to the erection of the beacon.
[Wednesday, 21st Sept.]
Mr. Thomas Macurich, mate of the SMEATON, and James
Scott, one of the crew, a young man about eighteen years of
age, immediately went into their boat to make fast a hawser to
the ring in the top of the floating buoy of the moorings, and
were forthwith to proceed to land their cargo, so much wanted,
at the rock. The tides at this period were very strong, and
the mooring-chain, when sweeping the ground, had caught hold
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