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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: boat nor one which had been sent with provisions and
necessaries for the floating light would have been permitted
to leave the harbour. The writer set off without delay for
Arbroath, and on landing used every possible means with the
official people, but their orders were deemed so peremptory
that even boats were not permitted to sail from any port upon
the coast. In the meantime, the collector of the Customs at
Montrose applied to the Board at Edinburgh, but could, of
himself, grant no relief to the Bell Rock shipping.
At this critical period Mr. Adam Duff, then Sheriff of
Forfarshire, now of the county of Edinburgh, and EX OFFICIO
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