"And now ahead of us, in the center of the mountain crescent, I could see the dip of a bay, where a green valley cut throughout the hills to the sea's edge.. Higher up this valley, as I knew, was a loch, where the hills crowded in an cradled the water into a deep and narrow basin. Out of this the river flowed; I could see the gleam of it, and, just discernible at that distance, a white building set among a mist of birch trees where the glittering shallows fanned out to meet the sea."
Wildfire at Midnight, 1956
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