neatly-enclosed

Updated: May 18, 2025

To the left, on a gentle grassy slope at the point of junction of a broad tributary with the Teffe, lay the little settlement a cluster of a hundred or so of palm- thatched cottages and white-washed red-tiled houses, each with its neatly-enclosed orchard of orange, lemon, banana, and guava trees.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons