At the entrance was a portal two hundred and twenty feet high and one hundred wide; but it is impossible for words to express the materials of which it was built. The reader, however, will readily conceive that they must have a prodigious superiority over the pebbles and sand, which we call gold and precious stones.
La puerta principal tenia doscientos y veinte piés de alto, y ciento de ancho, y no es dable decir de qué materia era; mas bien se echa de ver quan portentosas ventajas sacaria á los pedruscos y la arena que llamamos nosotros oro y piedras preciosas.