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.
Nu begon het mij te spijten, dat ik mijn kelder zoo wijd uitgegraven had, dat hij met eene deur buiten de rots uitkwam. Na rijp nadenken besloot ik mij eene tweede verschansing te maken, even zoo in een halven cirkel, op eene afstand van den muur, juist waar ik, twaalf jaren geleden, eene dubbele rij boomen had geplant.