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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 writer took his place in the floating light's boat with
the artificers, while the yacht's boat followed, according to
the general rule of having two boats afloat in landing
expeditions of this kind, that, in case of accident to one
boat, the other might assist. In several unsuccessful
attempts the boats were beat back by the breach of the sea
upon the rock. On the eastern side it separated into two
distinct waves, which came with a sweep round to the western
side, where they met; and at the instance of their confluence
the water rose in spray to a considerable height. Watching
what the sailors term a SMOOTH, we caught a favourable
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