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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: thin, and rather loose-made man, who had an utter aversion at
climbing upon the trap-ladders of the beacon, but especially
at the process of boating, and the motion of the ship, which
he said `was death itself.' He therefore pertinaciously
insisted with the landing-master in being left upon the
beacon, with a small black dog as his only companion. The
writer, however, felt some delicacy in leaving a single
individual upon the rock, who must have been so very helpless
in case of accident. This fabric had, from the beginning,
been rather intended by the writer to guard against accident
from the loss or damage of a boat, and as a place for making
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