Toward the middle of the afternoon the main flood cloud lifted along its western border revealing a beautiful section of the Sacramento Valley some twenty or thirty miles away, brilliantly sun-lighted and glistering with rain-sheets as if paved with silver.

下午中午时分，主要的洪水云沿着它的西部边界升起，露出大约二十或三十英里外萨克拉门托山谷的美丽部分，阳光灿烂，雨幕闪闪发光，仿佛铺上了银色。