stone-beds

Updated: May 2, 2025

To find other trees between Pebble-bank and Beal, it was necessary to recede a little in time to dig down to a loose stratum of the underlying stone-beds, where a forest of conifers lay as petrifactions, their heads all in one direction, as blown down by a gale in the Secondary geologic epoch. Dusk had closed in, and he now proceeded with what was, after all, the real business of his sojourn.

Thomas Hardy - The Well-Beloved