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On the south, the rocks are craggy and stupendous; the little river falls headlong down; it is not a stream, it is one broken, panting cascade far away in the gulley below, in the darkness. But on the slopes the sun pours in, the road winds down with its tail in its mouth, always in endless loops returning on itself. The mules that travel upward seem to be treading in a mill.
After the drowsiness of the heavy meal had passed they sat up and looked round leisurely. So far as they could see the narrow strip which comprised the bank of the mud gulley they had crossed was the only solid land in sight, and because of the trees and palmetto scrub they could not tell how far this ran in either direction. Behind them was the river of mud through which they had wallowed.
From the top of the hill, beyond the cleft of the river Avon, he could see the smoke and the church towers of the town of Bristol, and beyond it, the slime of the water of the Bristol Channel; and nearer, on one side, the spire of Elmwood Church looked up, and, on the other, the woods round Elmwood House, and these ran out as it were, lengthening and narrowing into a wooded cleft or gulley, Hermit's Gulley, which broke the side of the hill just below where Steadfast stood, and had a little clear stream running along the bottom.
I am a magistrate, and, of course, cannot patronise the thing very openly, yet I sometimes see a prize-fight. I saw the Game Chicken beat Gulley." "Did you ever see Big Ben?" "No, why do you ask?"
Good! Now panoram the drive up the gulley get it ALL, Pete turn as long as you can see the top of her hat. My Lord! You wouldn't get stuff like that in ten years. I wish Gay could handle herself like that in the saddle, but there ain't a leading woman in the business to-day that could put that over the way she's doing it. By George!
I drew that myself from memory, and I believe it is fairly correct." Recklow unfolded a little map, marked a spot on it with his pencil and passed it to McKay. "It's for you," he said. "The sapling ladder lies under the filbert bushes in the gulley where I have marked the boundary. Wait till the patrol passes. Then you have ten minutes.
"Why, jest this a-way," replied the trapper, almost irritating me with the prolixity of his style. "'Ee see them Injuns on t'other side o' the gulley?" "Yes, yes," hastily replied Seguin. "Wal; 'ee see these hyur?" and the speaker pointed to our captives. "Yes, yes!" "Wal; 'ee see them over yander, though thur hides be a coppery colour, has feelin's for thur childer like white Christyuns.
We followed the river to its junction with the Teesta, along a flat, broad gulley, bounded by densely-wooded, steep banks of clay slate on the north, and the lofty bank on the south: between these the bed was strewed with great boulders of gneiss and other rocks, luxuriantly clothed with long grass, and trees of wild plantain, Erythrina and Bauhinia, the latter gorgeously in flower.
In the centre is 'a deep trench or gulley, the sides and bed of which are strewn with rounded and water- worn pebbles. This is the 'valley, or rather 'ravine' of verse 3 of this chapter, which is described by a different word from that for 'vale' in verse 2 the one meaning a much broader opening than the other and from it came the 'five smooth stones. Notice the minute topographical accuracy, which indicates history, not legend.
"Here's where somebody has gone down ahead of him," cried another of the searchers, holding his own lantern close to the ground. "See how the bank's all torn up? Bet his wheel hit that stone yonder in the dusk and threw him, wheel and all, into this gulley." "Wait here, child," ordered Doctor Davison, quickly. "If he is in bad shape, boys, call me and I'll come down. Lift him carefully "
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