At insulani murum quem iussi fuerant, non tam lapidibus quam cespitibus construentes, utpote nullum tanti operis artificem habentes, ad nihil utilem statuunt.
But the islanders, building the wall which they were bid to make, not of stone, as they were willed, but of turf, as having none among them that had skill for so great an undertaking, raised it to be of use for no purpose.
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