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Updated: May 23, 2025

I expected a corresponding formation upon the opposite eastern versant: we found only a huge crest, a spine of black plutonic rock, intensely ugly and repulsive. As we rode back down the "Valley of the Perpendiculars," the aspect of the Jebel el-Maru was epatant to use another favourite camp-word.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2