"Adown Strath-Gartney's valley broad."Ib., p. 84.

A typical scene on one of the rivers connecting the broads.

This was a very high island in the middle of the ocean, rather exceeding two leagues long and about one league broad, in which no human being had ever been, yet was it to us most unfortunate, as on it our commander lost his vessel by his own folly and bad management.

Shrouded in a purple dimness, Quenched the sunlight is in shadow; Over hill and wood and meadow Broads the mist in sullen grimness.

"Obscur'd, where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sun-light, spread their umbrage broad.