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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: rearranged a sentence, always with his own words, and all with
a reverent and faithful hand; and I offer here to the reader
the true Monument of Robert Stevenson with a little of the
moss removed from the inscription, and the Portrait of the
artist with some superfluous canvas cut away.
I - OPERATIONS OF 1807
[Sunday, 16th Aug.]
Everything being arranged for sailing to the rock on
Saturday the 15th, the vessel might have proceeded on the
Sunday; but understanding that this would not be so agreeable
to the artificers it was deferred until Monday. Here we
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