The mountain was composed of two cones; the first, truncated at a height of about two thousand five hundred feet, was sustained by buttresses, which appeared to branch out like the talons of an immense claw set on the ground.
El monte se componía de dos conos. El primero, truncado a una altura de unos dos mil quinientos pies, estaba sostenido por caprichosos contrafuertes, que parecían ramificarse como los dientes de una inmensa sierra aplicada al cuello.