If he had but a thousand men! How soon he would bring Aurora there, and build a tower, and erect a palisade! So occupied was he with the thought that he returned the whole distance to the spot where he had made the discovery.

There he remained a long time, designing it all in his mind.
The tower he would build yonder, three-quarters of a mile, perhaps a mile, inland from the opposite shore, on a green knoll, at the base of which the brook flowed.

It would be even more pleasant there than on the shore of the lake.

The forest he would clear back a little, and put up a stout palisade, enclosing at least three miles of grassy land.

By the shore of the lake he would build his town, so that his vessels might be able to go forth into the great Sweet Water sea.