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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: In the evening the boats went to the rock, and brought
the joiners and smiths, and their sickly companions, on board
of the tender. These also brought with them two baskets full
of fish, which they had caught at high-water from the beacon,
reporting, at the same time, to their comrades, that the fish
were swimming in such numbers over the rock at high-water that
it was completely hid from their sight, and nothing seen but
the movement of thousands of fish. They were almost
exclusively of the species called the podlie, or young coal-
fish. This discovery, made for the first time to-day by the
workmen, was considered fortunate, as an additional
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