There! This was better. She was at the top now and could see the lands about her as successive sweeps of open country, cold under the moon, coarsely patched and seamed with thin rows and heavy clumps of trees.
The 'yellow ground' had to be smashed up with picks so that it could be coarsely sieved in large wire frames, and the resulting large pieces removed by buckets to be further sieved and scraped.