tree-adorned

Updated: May 10, 2025

The city, with its countless minarets and domed mosques, its public buildings and tree-adorned squares, its section of mud-colored houses and terraced roofs, lies in the form of a crescent at the visitor's feet, while the plains of Lower Egypt stretch far away in all directions.

Maturin Murray Ballou - Due West: or Round the World in Ten Months

The city, with its countless minarets and domed mosques, its public buildings, and tree-adorned squares, its section of mud-colored houses and terraced roofs, lies in the form of a crescent at the visitor's feet; while the plains of Lower Egypt stretch far away in all directions. Towards the sea is the land of Goshen, where the sons of Jacob fed their flocks.

Maturin Murray Ballou - Foot-prints of Travel: or, Journeyings in Many Lands