Away on his right he could see, rather indistinctly, the Western Mountains. On his left was the gleam of the Great River, and everything was so quiet that he could hear the sound of the waterfall at Beaversdam, a mile away. There was no difficulty in picking out the two stars they had come to see. They hung rather low in the southern sky, almost as bright as two little moons and very close together.
向右邊極目望去，山巒重重，依稀可見：左邊則有一條大河，蜿蜒而去。此時萬籟俱寂，凱斯賓甚至聽得見一英裏外海貍大壩的水聲。分辨那兩顆他們想看的星星似乎並非難事它們低垂在南方，明亮得就像小小的月亮，而且相距非常近。