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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: interest of economy and probable efficiency.
Wireless reports
have spoken of the breathtaking, four-hour, nonstop flight of
our squadron on November 21st over the lofty shelf ice, with vast
peaks rising on the west, and the unfathomed silences echoing
to the sound of our engines. Wind troubled us only moderately,
and our radio compasses helped us through the one opaque fog we
encountered. When the vast rise loomed ahead, between Latitudes
83° and 84°, we knew we had reached Beardmore Glacier, the largest
valley glacier in the world, and that the frozen sea was now giving
place to a frowning and mountainous coast line. At last we were
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