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"Seven pounds of the colony money is no usurer's price, after all, for a hundred acres of heavily-timbered land; and they in full view of a settlement where boys come three at a time!" The equestrian stopped his horse, and regarding his companion intently and with a significant air, he answered "Thou hast now fallen on the clue of an important mystery, Ensign Dudley.
The air quivered; the heat drove the fowls under the dray and sent the old dog to sleep upon the floor inside the house. The iron on the skillion cracked and sweated so did Dad and Dave down the paddock, grubbing grubbing, in 130 degrees of sunshine. They were clearing a piece of new land a heavily-timbered box-tree flat.
"On one side of the plantation was a heavily-timbered `bottom', through which meandered a small stream, called, of course, a `creek. This bottom was a favourite habitat of the 'coons, as there were large trees growing near the water, many of which were hollow either in their trunks or some of their huge limbs.
They descended rapidly, directly over a large and imposing city in the middle of a vast, level, beautifully-planted plain. While they were watching it, the city vanished and the plain was transformed into a heavily-timbered mountain summit, the valleys falling away upon all sides as far as the eye could reach.
That done, they intended to make the complete circuit of the valley, and ascertain whether there might not be some other place still easier of ascent. The point where they had halted was behind the tract of heavily-timbered forest of which Caspar had spoken, and which up to this time none of them had entered.
Having something more than what at that day was an ordinary education, Eliza procured about twenty pupils, and taught a summer school. "The school-house was one of the most primitive kind, and stood in the edge of dense and heavily-timbered woods. One day there came up a fearful storm of wind and rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning.
At length, after floating swiftly and truly down a long straight chute, the Venture was seized by an eddy at its foot, revolved slowly several times, and then reluctantly dragged into a false channel on the western side of a long, heavily-timbered island. Half-way down its length the raft "saddle-bagged," as the river men say, or floated broadside on, against a submerged rock.
From the abbey we can take our way by various beautiful paths to the exceedingly rich scenery of Bolton woods. Some of the reaches of the Wharfe through this deep and heavily-timbered part of its course are really enchanting, and not even the knowledge that excursion parties frequently traverse the paths can rob the views of their charm.
The landlady of the "Rose and Crown" ushered her visitors into the best sitting-room the house afforded an old-fashioned apartment, with a wide fire-place, high wooden mantel-piece, and heavily-timbered ceiling a room which seemed to belong to the past rather than the present.
The side of the eminence next to me was made up of a succession of rocky, heavily-timbered steeps and shelves, that rose like battlements before me, while, about midway, it was pierced or notched down by a dark, wild, thicket-tangled gorge, which extended along back up the mountain, as far as the eye could penetrate beneath, or overlook above the tops of the overhanging trees.
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