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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 considered most advisable to steer for the Firth of
Forth, and there wait a change of weather. At two p.m. we
accordingly passed the Isle of May, at six anchored in Leith
Roads, and at eight the writer landed, when he came in upon
his friends, who were not a little surprised at his unexpected
appearance, which gave an instantaneous alarm for the safety
of things at the Bell Rock.
[Thursday, 9th June]
The wind still continued to blow very hard at E. by N.,
and the SIR JOSEPH BANKS rode heavily, and even drifted with
both anchors ahead, in Leith Roads. The artificers did not
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