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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: buckle, and the like. Such were the spoils of the Bell Rock.
(1) This is, of course, the tradition commemorated by
Southey in his ballad of `The Inchcape Bell.' Whether true or
not, it points to the fact that from the infancy of Scottish
navigation, the seafaring mind had been fully alive to the
perils of this reef. Repeated attempts had been made to mark
the place with beacons, but all efforts were unavailing (one
such beacon having been carried away within eight days of its
erection) until Robert Stevenson conceived and carried out the
idea of the stone tower. But the number of vessels actually
lost upon the reef was as nothing to those that were cast away
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