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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 landing took place at half-past five. In passing the
SMEATON at her moorings near the rock, her boat followed with
eight additional artificers who had come from Arbroath with
her at last trip, but there being no room for them in the
floating light's boats, they had continued on board. The
weather did not look very promising in the morning, the wind
blowing pretty fresh from W.S.W.: and had it not been that the
writer calculated upon having a vessel so much at command, in
all probability he would not have ventured to land. The
SMEATON rode at what sailors call a SALVAGEE, with a cross-
head made fast to the floating buoy. This kind of attachment
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