I can see a ray of light.

Yes, and some leaves.

I don't think they are more than thirty feet above us!" Meinik applied his eye to the crevice.
"I see them, master.

Yes, I don't think those leaves are more than that distance away." "That is what I came to look for," Stanley said.

"It was evident that this rubbish could only be the stones of the root, and pavement over the depression in the middle of the ruin; and that these could not block up this staircase very far.