As viewed from that vantage point, the round-profile rhyolite and granite hills of the western side of Madison County resemble an archipelago of heavily weathered islands, with the shallow tree-filled valleys taking the place of shallow seas.

He found himself presently off the main highway, following a side road that wound down among tree-filled valleys, and up over tall hills.

In the tree-filled valleys, on the spreading plains yet farther to the east, battles had been fought between poachers and guardians.

Clouds were boiling in from the north and the west, but the sun was still bright enough to send their shadows sliding down limestone ridges to the tree-filled valleys below.

She gazed down the hill on whose crest she sat and spied four darkly robed figures moving softly through the morning dimness that still clung to the narrow, tree-filled valley below.

One desolate, tree-filled valley was very like another; and one twisting, trackless bare rock ridge the same as all the rest.

Up and down went the trail, into rocky, tree-filled valleys, and up again across bare, windswept stone.

A tree-filled valley, a steep, bare cliffside, a riverside, a lake-even one area of desert, filled with wind-sculpted rocks, which Raoul's imagination had transformed into the appearance of the houses and buildings of his own home town.