I approached it; it was a road or a track: it led straight up to the light, which now beamed from a sort of knoll, amidst a clump of trees--firs, apparently, from what I could distinguish of the character of their forms and foliage through the gloom.
Mi accostai. Era un sentiero che conduceva dritto al lume che brillava su una piccola collina, in mezzo a un ciuffo d'alberi, che mi parvero abeti per quanto mi era dato vedere nel buio.