bridgeways

Updated: May 28, 2025

Twice in our thirty-five miles of the Roper about ten miles apart wide-spreading rocky arches completely span the river a foot or so beneath its surface, forming natural crossing-places; for at them the full volume of water takes what Dan called a "duck-under," leaving only smoothly flowing shallow streams, a couple of hundred yards wide, running over the rocky bridgeways.

Jeannie Gunn - We of the Never-Never