Its bark is of a greenish white hue and is smooth, and its trunk and branches straight and ungnarled […]

There exist other procedures, current among astronomers and mariners, which require instruments not usually available to the gnomonists;

I feel that we need to try harder.

Here they ascended, and anon appeared to descend in the same direction, finding only boundless wildernesses, and varied combinations of tangled woodland scenery.