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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: which the ebb-tide and the smooth water allowed them to pass
upon its shelves, his crew collected upwards of two
hundredweight of old metal: pieces of a kedge anchor and a
cabin stove, crowbars, a hinge and lock of a door, a ship's
marking-iron, a piece of a ship's caboose, a soldier's
bayonet, a cannon ball, several pieces of money, a shoe-
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
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