Some few of them had been built with more care immediately around the dwelling of Mr. Wharton; but those which had intersected the vale below were now generally a pile of ruins, over which the horses of the Virginians would bound with the fleetness of the wind.
Mr. Wharton házának közelében némelyik a szokottnál nagyobb gonddal épült, de azok, amelyek régebben a völgy alsó részét vágták darabokra, most többnyire romokban hevertek, s a virginiaiak lovai szélsebesen szökkentek át fölöttük.