In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day (во время одной такой долгой прогулки прекрасным осенним днем), Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill mountains (Рип неосознанно вскарабкался на одну из самых высоких частей Каатскиллских гор;
In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill mountains. He was after his favorite sport of squirrel shooting, and the still solitudes had echoed and reechoed with the reports of his gun. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll, covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice.
From an opening between the trees (сквозь просвет между деревьями) he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland (он мог обозревать всю низину на многие мили богатого леса). He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson (он видел вдалеке величавый Гудзон), far, far below him (далеко-далеко под ним), moving on its silent but majestic course (двигаясь медленно, но величаво: «несущий свое медленное, но величественное течение /воды/»), with the reflection of a purple cloud (с отражением пурпурного облака), or the sail of a lagging bark (или парусом медленной лодки), here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom (/то/ здесь, /то/ там спящих на его гладкой поверхности;
From an opening between the trees he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.