In the plantations human forms appeared, now erect, now bent down over their work.

A ditch of medium size bordered the fields on the north, carrying water from the brook for purposes of irrigation.

Still north of the ditch, and between it and the cliffs, arose a tall building, which from a distance looked like a high clumsy pile of clay or reddish earth.
This pile was irregularly terraced.

Human beings stood on the terraces or moved along them.

Now and then one was seen to rise from the interior of the pile to one of the terraced roofs, or another slowly sank from sight, as if descending into the interior of the earthy heap.