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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: with a piece of money. The SMEATON had been named
spontaneously, from a sense of the obligation which a public
work of the description of the Bell Rock owed to the labours
and abilities of Mr. Smeaton. The writer certainly never
could have anticipated the satisfaction which he this day felt
in witnessing the pleasure it afforded to the only
representative of this great man's family.
[Friday, 20th July]
The gale from the N.E. still continued so strong,
accompanied with a heavy sea, that the PATRIOT could not
approach her moorings; and although the tender still kept her
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