The piles, or stakes, which were as heavy as I could well lift, were a long time in cutting and preparing in the woods, and more, by far, in bringing home; so that I spent sometimes two days in cutting and bringing home one of those posts, and a third day in driving it into the ground; for which purpose I got a heavy piece of wood at first, but at last bethought myself of one of the iron crows; which, however, though I found it, made driving those posts or piles very laborious and tedious work.
Je passais quelquefois deux jours à tailler et à transporter un seul de ces poteaux, et un troisième jour à l'enfoncer en terre. Pour ce dernier travail je me servais au commencement d'une lourde pièce de bois mais, plus tard, je m'avisai d'employer une barre de fer, ce qui n'empêcha pas, toutefois, que le pilotage de ces palis ou de ces pieux ne fût une rude et longue besogne.