earth-haze

Updated: May 21, 2025

A cloud of red sand advanced like a prairie-fire at headlong speed before the mighty rushing wind, whose damp breath smelt of rain; and presently the mountain-rim was veiled in brown and ruddy and purple earth-haze. A bow in the eastern sky strongly suggested, in the apparent absence of a shower, refraction by dust if such thing be possible.

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