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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: It was remarked to-day, with no small demonstration of
joy, that the tide, being neap, did not, for the first time,
overflow the building at high-water. Flags were accordingly
hoisted on the beacon-house, and crane on the top of the
building, which were repeated from the floating light,
Lighthouse yacht, tender, SMEATON, PATRIOT, and the two
praams. A salute of three guns was also fired from the yacht
at high-water, when, all the artificers being collected on the
top of the building, three cheers were given in testimony of
this important circumstance. A glass of rum was then served
out to all hands on the rock and on board of the respective
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