Crossword-Solution: AVENS 5 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The old man looked up, gazed for a moment in silence, and said:-- “‘The h’avens declare the glory o’ God, an’ the firmament showeth his handy-wark.’ I used, whan I was a lad, to study astronomy a wee, i’ the houp o’ better hearin’ what the h’avens declared aboot the glory o’ God: I wud fain un’erstan’ the speech a’ day cried across the nicht to the ither.

Noo I canna tell what it was, but jist there whaur the earth an’ the sky cam thegither, was the meetin’ o’ my earthly sowl wi’ God’s h’avenly sowl! There was bonnie colours, an’ bonnie lichts, an’ a bonnie grit star hingin’ ower ’t a’, but it was nane o’ a’ thae things; it was something deeper nor a’, an’ heicher nor a’! Frae that moment I saw--no _hoo_ the h’avens declare the glory o’ God, but I saw them declarin’ ’t, an’ I wantit nae mair.

Also meadow-sweet, meadow-rue, and comfrey of every shade of purple, the water avens and forget-me-not, also that loveliest plant the bog-bean, with trefoil leaves and feathery blossoms.

The most dangerous part of our proposed route, the critical point of our escape, would be the crossing of the Avens and the Salarian Highway, which we must effect somewhere near Forum Decii, between Interocrium and Falacrinum.

Hiding by day and threading devious paths by night we reached and passed the Avens and the Salarian Highway without any encounter with any human being; and indeed without near proximity to any.