For the successful negotiation of brooks a bold horse is required, ridden by a bold man.
The whole White Mountain region abounds in deep narrow valleys, romantic glens, ravines, flumes, waterfalls, brooks and lakes.
In the dry weather they are little more than brooks.
The narrower part of the Tagus basin lies to the south, and the left-hand tributaries which drain it are almost all mere brooks, dry in summer.
Brooks differs greatly as to matter of fact from that of Horst, and appears to be erroneous in some respects.