sand-valleys

Updated: June 14, 2025

Oudney says: "The presence of nothing but deep sand-valleys and high sand-hills strikes the mind forcibly. There is something of the sublime mixed with the melancholy.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

Here and there, in a scattered cordon, stood the six trusty negro soldiers leaning motionless upon their rifles, and each throwing a shadow which looked as solid as himself. But beyond this golden plain lay a low line of those black slag-heaps, with yellow sand-valleys winding between them.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Tragedy of the Korosko