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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: under the unclouded dome of heaven, and thus look down on the
submergence of the valley, was strangely different and even
delightful to the eyes. Far away were hilltops like little
islands. Nearer, a smoky surf beat about the foot of
precipices and poured into all the coves of these rough
mountains. The colour of that fog ocean was a thing never to
be forgotten. For an instant, among the Hebrides and just
about sundown, I have seen something like it on the sea
itself. But the white was not so opaline; nor was there,
what surprisingly increased the effect, that breathless,
crystal stillness over all. Even in its gentlest moods the
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