The road goes north-west and meanders through pleasant vales and pastures.
The surface is diversified by vales, meadows, sand-dunes and tidal marshes.
On both sides throughout the dale numerous narrow tributary vales open out.
The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black.
It 's an area of sweeping sands backed by green farmland, fertile vales and forests.