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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: What? Those great rusty rings fixed into the rock?
Yes. Those may be as old, for aught I know, as Queen Elizabeth's
or James's reign.
But why were they put there?
For ships to hold on by, if they lost the tide.
What do you mean?
It is high tide now. That is why the water is almost up to the
branches of the trees. But when the tide turns, it will all rush
out in a torrent which would sweep ships out to sea again, if they
had not steam, as we have, to help them up against the stream. So
sailing ships, in old times, fastened themselves to those rings,
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