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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: whereon an enemy might stell such a battery of cannon as would
make ye glad to beat a chamade within forty-eight hours, unless
it pleased the Lord extraordinarily to show mercy."
"There is no road," replied Sir Duncan, somewhat shortly, "by
which cannon can be brought against Ardenvohr. The swamps and
morasses around my house would scarce carry your horse and
yourself, excepting by such paths as could be rendered impassable
within a few hours."
"Sir Duncan," said the Captain, "it is your pleasure to suppose
so; and yet we martial men say, that where there is a sea-coast
there is always a naked side, seeing that cannon and munition,
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