tuwayyil

Updated: May 13, 2025

In the adjoining hills and cliffs the Secondaries and the conglomerates take all shades of colour, marvellous to behold when the mirage raises to giant heights the white coast-banks patched with pink, red, mauve, and dark brown. Moreover, the quarries of mottled alabaster, which the Ancients worked for constructions, still show themselves. The travellers slept at the base of the Tuwayyil.

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

A little to the north stands the small pyramidal Tuwayyil el-Kibrit, the "little Sulphur Hill," which had been carefully examined by MM. Marie and Philipin. A slow ride of eight miles placed us in a safe gorge draining a dull-looking, unpromising block. Here we at once found, and found in situ for the first time, the chalcedony which strews the seaboard-flat.

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