palm-scattered

Updated: May 16, 2025

Stony ramps, stiff as those of Gibraltar, connect the low with the high town, the cool breezy new settlement upon the crest of the northern cliff, whose noble view of the Jebel Libn and the palm-scattered Wady el-Wijh were formerly monopolized by the fort and its round tower.

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