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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: of these possible and not at all improbable cases, those who
might thus have been left upon the rock had now something to
lay hold of, and, though occupying this dreary habitation of
the sea-gull and the cormorant, affording only bread and
water, yet LIFE, would be preserved, and the mind would still
be supported by the hope of being ultimately relieved.
[Wednesday, 25th May]
On the 25th of May the writer embarked at Arbroath, on
board of the SIR JOSEPH BANKS, for the Bell Rock, accompanied
by Mr. Logan senior, foreman builder, with twelve masons and
two smiths, together with thirteen seamen, including the
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