These rooms, or rather this suite of rooms, would not occupy all the depth of the cave.

There would be also a corridor and a storehouse, in which their tools, provisions, and stores would be kept.

All the productions of the island, the flora as well as the fauna, were to be there in the best possible state of preservation, and completely sheltered from the damp.

There was no want of space, so that each object could be methodically arranged.

Besides, the colonists had still at their disposal the little grotto above the great cavern, which was like the garret of the new dwelling.
This plan settled, it had only to be put into execution.