The slow plough traverses the earth, and the white dust rises from the road and drifts into the field.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
It carries him quickly over much barren ground and gives him a better view of the country he traverses; finally, it enables him to see more birds.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
We crossed various formidable gullies, and travelled some way down the bed of Balmy Creek, then ascending by the valley through which I yesterday penetrated in my ride, we travelled southward in a tolerably direct line through the valley up to its highest heads, from one of which we contrived to draw up carts and drays along three traverses, formed by nature on the face of a rocky slope.
"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