ground-groveling

Updated: June 10, 2025

There are many alders here, which bear mute though powerful testimony, in the shape of their gnarled and bent over ground-groveling trunks, of the heavy winters' snows. These meadows clearly were once glacial lakes, now filled up, and Miller's Creek was the instrument of their destruction.

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