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 210
- ._^-.ixa?*t- ^ … Town and Lake of Khatouniyah. The small town of Khatouniyah was, until recently, inha-bited by a tribe of Arabs, but had been deserted on accountof a feud, arising out of the rival pretensions of two chiefs.The lake may be about six miles in circumference. Thewater, although brackish, like nearly…