So Tom went to go down; and first he went down three hundred feet of steep heather, mixed up with loose brown gritstone, as rough as a file; which was not pleasant to his poor little heels, as he came bump, stump, jump, down the steep.
"Journeys Through Bookland V2"
Charles H. Sylvester
This gigantic statue of hard gritstone had formerly been broken in half across the waist, and the upper part thrown to the ground, either by the shock of an earthquake or the ruder shock of Persian zeal against the Egyptian religion; and for some centuries past the musical notes had issued from the broken fragments.
"History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12)"
S. Rappoport
The softer rocks below generally take a gentle slope from the base of the hard gritstone to the riverside pastures below.
"Yorkshire Painted And Described"
Gordon Home