The Doone valley, with Badgworthy (pronounced Badgery) Water running through it, is about half-an-hour's walk from Malmsmead Bridge, which is close to the village of Oare.

It looked to me as if the whole valley which might be a hundred miles long might have been a solid bed of rock salt.

The shallow, elevated valleys we passed in the forenoon's walk were stony and barren, but covered with large orchards of almond trees, the fruit of which forms a considerable article of export.

Valley of the Arno, Dec 22.It is a glorious morning after our two days' walk, through rain and mud, among these stormy Appenines.

FARNOL, JOHN JEFFERY. Valley of night; being an episode in the career of Jasper Shrig of Bow Street.

The valley was fall of light, and a momentary cloud which skirted the horizon, occasioned by the deep sense she felt of her own unprofitableness, melted away at the presence of Him whom, having not seen, she loved, and whose name was last upon her lips.

[Note 6: This valley is the actual Vega Real.]

Now such a valley is a forest of corn unbroken by any vestige of brook, creek, rivulet or rill.

We travelled the whole of the 31st August across a succession of broken passes; so complicated were the valleys and so broken were the range of hills, that we were unable to tell when we reached the back-bone of the ridge, and we struggled on in doubt and difficulty till we were again overtaken by the shades of night.

The Lolab Valley, into which we had now penetrated, is a rich and picturesque expanse of level plain, some fifteen miles long by three or four broad, apparently completely surrounded by a densely-wooded curtain of mountains, rising to an elevation of some 3000 feet above the valley on the south and west, but ranging on the other sides up into the lofty summits which bar the route into Gurais and the Tilail.

The old church must have looked down on many a wild and curious scene in the days when Scot and Englishman sought only opportunities to do each other an injury, and the river-valleys were the natural passes through which the tide of invasion, raid, and reprisal flowed.

Ye see it's not onlikely he's bin took; so about thirty o' the lads o' the valley are ready jest now to start away and give the red riptiles chase, an' I come to tell ye; so keep up heart, mistress.

The valley we had just left was Soghan-Dere, about seven miles from Sedd ul Bahr, and the plateau across which we were walking led, on the right, up to a ridge from which one could look down on the whole battle-field, or, to the left, straight down into the battle itself.

The valleys which they ravaged were the granary of the revolutionary forces.

But, as I have said, the sun was there in vain, all this valley was smoke and darkness.

That valley is just a beautiful sewer for the drainage of the hills; a very market-town for all the germs and bacilli of the district.

A sombre smoky sunset, as if this Death Valley was the gateway of hell, and its sinister shades were upflung from fire.

Thus the valley before us was one mountain-and-hill-bound amphitheater.

The Celtic island-valley of Avalon, the abode of King Arthur, "with its orchard-lawns and bowery hollows," so exquisitely alluded to by Tennyson, is a kindred spot with the Homeric Elysian plain.

" CHAPTER V Golden Valley was the Garden of Eden of the Northwest.

The valley was a place of yellow light.

But the valleys, the trees and the glaciers, were only the mise-en-scène of that which constituted primarily the reason of my visiting this peninsula.

The narrow valley that it waters is a gorge 500 or 600 feet deep through the greater part of its distance.

The valley was about half a square mile in area, of which the lake in the center occupied one-fourth, the rest being in dense forest.

That valley is a trap.