Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1867)
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 · London J. Murray · leaf 140
face, and that wells once yieldedall that was required for irrigation and human consumption.The loads had not yet been fairly divided amongst thecamels, and the sun had risen above the horizon, before theBedouins had arranged them to their satisfaction, and wereready to depart. The plain of Zerga… … Our first Encampnicnt in the Desert. A ride of three hours and a quarter brought us to a secondline of limestone hills, the continuation of the Tel Afer andSinjar range, dividing the small plain of Zerga from the trueMesopotamian desert. From a peak which I ascended totake bearings, the vast level…
