deaf-dumb

Updated: May 1, 2025

Not a line of inscription, not even a mason's mark all dark as the grave; deaf-dumb as "the olden gods." It stands upon the very edge of its Wady's left bank, a clifflet some twenty-five feet high, sloping inland with the usual dark metal disposed upon loose yellow sand.

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