Before us was a mighty chasm in the black rock, jagged, torn, and splintered through it in a far past age by some awful convulsion of Nature.

• 我们前面是一道黑黝黝的巨大的深渊，大约很久很久以前一次可怕的大震动将它崩裂撕扯成这种锯齿獠牙般模样。