concavely-disposed

Updated: May 9, 2025

Khamis, like myself, was very anxious to complete his journey, and tried every conceivable means to entice his crew away, but he failed as signally as I did. On the mainland opposite to this, we see the western horn of these concavely-disposed mountains, which encircle the north of the lake, and from hence the horn stretches away in increasing height as it extends northwards.

John Hanning Speke - What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile