The country near the creek is a perfect bog, and even a man has great difficulty in getting out of some places that he is induced to try, thinking it crossable.
"McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia"
John McKinlay
Now, as he waited there, a broad gulf, not a crossable river, seemed to stretch before him, not alone financial but ethical,-a sweeping troublous torrent, the force of which he could neither stem nor even explain to himself,-verily the surging of the Whirlpool at his feet.
"People of the Whirlpool"
Mabel Osgood Wright