If the stream below is fordable, head steeply down a rocky track to ford it.
They reported the river to be "low and fordable in many places".
It had a fordable causeway leading out to it and rose about 2.5 feet above the water level, clothed in trees and grasses.
At this point, the bridge was not fordable as one span was removed and its wooden replacement burned down.
But during the winter it shrinks and becomes fordable at most places.
Here the river was fordable for most of the year and the spot used by both men and animals as a crossing point.
The river is fordable at this location, so strategically the fort controlled the crossing.
