Immediately outside its principal gate ran the Glashburn; on the other side of the house, within the grounds, ran a smaller hill-stream, already mentioned as passing close under Ginevra's window.

Both these fell into the Lorrie.

Between them the mountain sloped gently up for some little distance, clothed with forest.

On the side of the smaller burn, however, the side opposite the house, the ground rose abruptly.

There also grew firs, but the soil was shallow, with rock immediately below, and they had not come to much.
Straight from the mountain, between the two streams, Gibbie approached the house, through larches and pines, raving and roaring in the wind.