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 196
e togo forward. After descending some fifty feet, we found ourselves onthe margin of a pond of fresh water. The pitchy darknessprevented our ascertaming its size, which could not havebeen very great. The cave is frequently a place of refugefor the wandering Arabs, and the Bedouins encamp near itin… … Volcanic Cone of Koukab. Leaving the cavern and issuing from the ravine, we cameto the edge of a wide crater, in the centre of which rose theremarkable cone of Koukab. To the left of us was a secondcrater, whose lips were formed by the jagged edges of ba-saltic rocks, and in the plain around were…
