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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: conduct the envoy of Montrose to the castle of Ardenvohr. The
distance between the galley and the beach was so short as scarce
to require the assistance of the eight sturdy rowers, in bonnets,
short coats, and trews, whose efforts sent the boat to the little
creek in which they usually landed, before one could have
conceived that it had left the side of the birling. Two of the
boatmen, in spite of Dalgetty's resistance, horsed the Captain on
the back of a third Highlander, and, wading through the surf with
him, landed him high and dry upon the beach beneath the castle
rock. In the face of this rock there appeared something like the
entrance of a low-browed cavern, towards which the assistants
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