Bir
The deep short river of the north-east coast, a cold trench of water running from the high moors to the sea with hardly a shallow in it. Bir is the old word for deep, and the name is a measurement, not a poem.
Key traits
- Its name is the old-register word for "deep", accurately applied; the Bir drowns its whole valley floor.
- Short, navigable, and dark: sea-boats come surprisingly far inland on it.
- Eel and muckfish Natural History Muckfish Bloated, sluggish, and thick-skinned, the Muckfish wallows in the blackest, deepest beds of rivers where even light fails to penetrate. weirs line its lower reaches.