Norris Forded the stream, cast a casual eye on the double track, and nodded.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine
At about two miles I found some traces of horses, and I looked at the river bank for Commissioner Mitchell's initials, supposing this might be "Congo," where he had Forded the Narran.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
At Longtown, on the Esk, the Jacobite troops Forded the river "shouther to shouther," as Lady Nairne's lyric has it, dancing reels on the bank till they had dried themselves.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett