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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: so heavily with her cargo, that at noon a signal was made for
her getting under weigh, when she stood towards Arbroath; and
on board of the tender we are still without any communication
with the people on the rock, where the sea was seen breaking
over the top of the building in great sprays, and raging with
much agitation among the beams of the beacon.
[Thursday, 17th May]
The wind, in the course of the day, had shifted from
north to west; the sea being also considerably less, a boat
landed on the rock at six p.m., for the first time since the
11th, with the provisions and water brought off by the
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