pebble-strew'd

Updated: May 10, 2025

All around, Arizona the painted hills, looking as though someone had carefully swept them early in the morning with a broom; the valleys studded with mesquite trees and greasewood and dotted here and there with brown specks which even the uninitiated will know are cattle, and the river, one of Arizona's minor streams, a few yards across and only a couple of feet deep, but swift-rushing, pebble-strew'd and clear as crystal.

John H. (John Henry) Cady - Arizona's Yesterday: Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer