Like The Carmel.

"It isn't very long but in its course it has everything a river should have. It tumbles down a while, runs through shallows, crackles among round boulders, wanders lazily under sycamores, spills into pools where trout live ... In the winter, it becomes a torrent, and in the summer it is a place for children to wade in and for fishermen to wander in.”

- John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

The Water of Leith at Junction Bridge, detritus-laden and taking it's time.