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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: bordered on one of the water-highways of civilisation; a great
fleet passed annually in their view, and of the shipwrecks of
the world they were the scene and cause of a proportion wholly
incommensurable to their size. In one year, 1798, my
grandfather found the remains of no fewer than five vessels on
the isle of Sanday, which is scarcely twelve miles long.
`Hardly a year passed,' he writes, `without instances of
this kind; for, owing to the projecting points of this
strangely formed island, the lowness and whiteness of its
eastern shores, and the wonderful manner in which the scanty
patches of land are intersected with lakes and pools of water,
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