Now, I began sorely to repent that I had dug my cave so large as to bring a door through again, which door, as I said, came out beyond where my fortification joined to the rock: upon maturely considering this, therefore, I resolved to draw me a second fortification, in the manner of a semicircle, at a distance from my wall, just where I had planted a double row of trees about twelve years before, of which I made mention: these trees having been planted so thick before, they wanted but few piles to be driven between them, that they might be thicker and stronger, and my wall would be soon finished.
Je commençai alors à me repentir d'avoir creusé ma grotte, et de lui avoir donné une issue qui aboutissait, comme je l'ai dit, au-delà de l'endroit où ma fortification joignait le rocher. Après mûre délibération, je résolus de me faire un second retranchement en demi-cercle, à quelque distance de ma muraille, juste où douze ans auparavant j'avais planté un double rang d'arbres dont il a été fait mention.