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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: safeguard to shipping.
Upon narrowly examining the great iron stanchions with
which the beams were fixed to the rock, the writer had the
satisfaction of finding that there was not the least
appearance of working or shifting at any of the joints or
places of connection; and, excepting the loosening of the
bracing-chains, everything was found in the same entire state
in which it had been left in the month of October. This, in
the estimation of the writer, was a matter of no small
importance to the future success of the work. He from that
moment saw the practicability and propriety of fitting up the
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