However, Pencroft observed that the shore was more equal, that the ground rose, and he declared that it was joined by a long slope to a hill, whose massive front he thought that he could see looming indistinctly through the mist.
Toutefois, Pencroff observa que le littoral était plus accore, que le terrain montait, et il supposa qu'il devait rejoindre, par une rampe assez allongée, une haute côte dont le massif se profilait confusément dans l'ombre.