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Las pocas casas que había -todas de planta baja y techumbre abovedada, cubos de piedra en seco- estaban construidas al bies, casi como si hubieran tenido la suerte de resistir un violento corrimiento de la tierra que no quería tenerlas encima.
The few houses one saw, all single-story, domed structures, cubes of dry stone, stood askew, as if by chance alone theyd survived the violent bucking of an earth that didnt want them on its back.
Ahora, gran parte de la ciudad nueva estaba hecha de sillares antiguos rapiñados de los bosques cercanos, y abundaban muros de piedra en seco hechos con piedras locales o con escombros mucho menos identificables en torno a los campos y casas de alrededor.
As it was, much of the new town was made of ancient building blocks mined out of the encroaching woods, and dry-stone walls of both ordinary fieldstone and much less identifiable rubble abounded around both outlying fields and house yards.
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