rock-and-gravel

Updated: May 27, 2025

"When you walk it gets on Suvy's nerves to try to keep step," he answered. "Fall in." They went two miles down the river, then, across on a rock-and-gravel bottom, at a ford directly opposite a jagged rift in the mountains. This chasm, which was short and steep, they traversed perspiringly. The sun was getting warm.

Philip Verrill Mighels - The Furnace of Gold