Having reached a spot about twenty feet from the edge of the beach, and nearly five hundred feet from the cliff, which rose perpendicularly, Harding thrust the pole two feet into the sand, and wedging it up carefully, he managed, by means of the plumb-line, to erect it perpendicularly with the plane of the horizon.
Al llegar a veinte pies del extremo de la playa, a unos quinientos pies de la muralla de granito, que se levantaba perpendicularmente, Ciro Smith clavó la pértiga uno o dos pies en la arena, calzándola con cuidado, y por medio de la plomada consiguió ponerla perpendicularmente al plano de horizonte.