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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: the odd markings, he would have to make a long sledge trip from
these foothills to the steep slopes of the gigantic mountains
themselves.
He had resolved, nevertheless, to do some local
boring as part of the expedition’s general program; hence he set
up the drill and put five men to work with it while the rest finished
settling the camp and repairing the damaged aeroplane. The softest
visible rock - a sandstone about a quarter of a mile from the
camp - had been chosen for the first sampling; and the drill made
excellent progress without much supplementary blasting. It was
about three hours afterward, following the first really heavy
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