Spring and Road by Old Frenchman Place in Sanctuary (Location)

"The spring" at which the novel begins lies just beside both the road that connects Frenchman's Bend to the world and the drive that leads up to the house. Surrounded by thick undergrowth, it "wells up at the root of a beech tree and flows away upon a bottom of whorled and waved sand" (3). Not far from the spring, the drive has been blocked by the tree that Popeye chopped down; it is there that Gowan crashes the car with Temple in it.