death-embraces

Updated: May 16, 2025

Torn up by the massy roots, or twisted round as you would try to break an obstinately tough withe, for many score of acres the wildest confusion of prostrate maples and elms and pines, heaped upon one another, locked in death-embraces, quite obliterated any track, and blocked across the country.

Elizabeth Hely Walshe - Cedar Creek: From the Shanty to the Settlement