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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: there being no wind, the kedge-anchor was LET GO off
Anstruther, one of the numerous towns on the coast of Fife,
where we waited the return of the tide.
[Saturday, 11th June]
At six a.m. the SIR JOSEPH got under weigh, and at eleven
was again made fast to the southern buoy at the Bell Rock.
Though it was now late in the tide, the writer, being anxious
to ascertain the state of things after the gale, landed with
the artificers to the number of forty-four. Everything was
found in an entire state; but, as the tide was nearly gone,
only half an hour's work had been got when the site of the
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