mud-basin

Updated: May 12, 2025

Beyond this well the country assumes the character of a broad sink or mud-basin, the shiny surface of its mud glistening in the sun like a sheet of muddy water. Sloughs innumerable meander through it, fringed with rank rushes and shrubs.

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II : From Teheran To Yokohama