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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: landing-master and his crew had got considerably beforehand
with the building artificers in bringing materials faster to
the rock than they could be built. The seamen having,
therefore, some spare time, were occasionally employed during
fine weather in dredging or grappling for the several mushroom
anchors and mooring-chains which had been lost in the vicinity
of the Bell Rock during the progress of the work by the
breaking loose and drifting of the floating buoys. To
encourage their exertions in this search, five guineas were
offered as a premium for each set they should find; and, after
much patient application, they succeeded to-day in hooking one
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