Most of the soil had been washed away or buried in drift after the removal of the trees; only where the streamlet ran down from the kettle a thick bed of moss and some ferns and little creeping bushes were still green among the sand.

• 树木被砍倒后，大部分肥沃的泥土已经或被冲走或被压到了沙土下，只有锅里渗出一条细流的地方长着一层厚厚的苔藓、一些羊齿草和贴地蔓生的灌木，在沙地中呈现出一片碧绿。