putrid-looking

Updated: May 14, 2025

Hawley, with the swamp all round it and underneath it, and close to it some pestiferous ditches which have been cut to drain it, but in which a putrid-looking brown ooze has stagnated. There is a causeway about two hundred yards long on the river bank, but no road anywhere.

Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird - The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither