Those who understand such enclosures will think I had very little contrivance when I pitched upon a place very proper for all these (being a plain, open piece of meadow land, or savannah, as our people call it in the western colonies), which had two or three little drills of fresh water in it, and at one end was very woody—I say, they will smile at my forecast, when I shall tell them I began by enclosing this piece of ground in such a manner that, my hedge or pale must have been at least two miles about.
Los que saben hacer este tipo de cercados, pensarán que tuve poco ingenio al elegir una pradera o sabana (como las llamamos los ingleses en las colonias occidentales), que tenía muchos árboles en un extremo y dos o tres pequeñas corrientes de agua. Como he dicho, se reirán cuando les diga que, cuando comencé, tenía previsto hacer un cercado de, al menos, dos millas.