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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: The wind, in the course of the day, had shifted from
north to west; the sea being also considerably less, a boat
landed on the rock at six p.m., for the first time since the
11th, with the provisions and water brought off by the
PATRIOT. The inhabitants of the beacon were all well, but
tired above measure for want of employment, as the balance-
crane and apparatus was all in readiness. Under these
circumstances they felt no less desirous of the return of good
weather than those afloat, who were continually tossed with
the agitation of the sea. The writer, in particular, felt
himself almost as much fatigued and worn-out as he had been at
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