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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: commencement of the work, the other vessels in the harbour
also saluted, which made a very gay appearance. A number of
the friends and acquaintances of those on board having been
thus collected, the piers, though at a late hour, were
perfectly crowded, and just as the SMEATON cleared the
harbour, all on board united in giving three hearty cheers,
which were returned by those on shore in such good earnest,
that, in the still of the evening, the sound must have been
heard in all parts of the town, re-echoing from the walls and
lofty turrets of the venerable Abbey of Aberbrothwick. The
writer felt much satisfaction at the manner of this parting
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