EN: Near the close of an exceedingly warm day... I was alone, sitting with a book in hand... at this window commanding... through a long vista of the riverbanks... a view of a distant hill... the face of which nearest my position... had been denuded, by a landslide... of the principal portion of its trees.
ES: Hacia el anochecer de un día muy caluroso, estaba yo, sentado con un libro en la mano, junto a esta ventana, dominando, gracias a un amplio panorama de las orillas del río, la vista de una colina distante,