Yet at the time that we saw it, which must have been nearly three thousand years after the date of the execution of the carving, the column was only eight feet high, and was still in process of formation, which gives a rate of growth of a foot to a thousand years, or an inch and a fraction to a century.
Hala ere guk ikusten genuen garaian, hura eraiki eta ia hiru mila urte beranduago, harroinak zortzi oinetako garaiera besterik ez zuen, eta oraindik osatzen ari zen, gutxi gorabehera mila urtetan oin bateko luzapena izango litzatekeena, edo hatz t'erdi mende batean.