Eothen, Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home From the East
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In this I wasright, for at about three or four o’clock in the afternoon I caught afirst sight of its dismal face. I went on and came near to those waters of death. They stretched deeplyinto the southern desert, and before me, and all around, as far away asthe eye could follow, blank hills piled high over hills, pale, yellow, and naked, walled up in her tomb for ever the dead and damned Gomorrah. There was no fly that hummed in the forbidden air, but instead a deepstillness; no grass grew from t...he earth, no weed peered through the voidsand; but in mockery of all life there were trees borne down by Jordan insome ancient flood, and these, grotesquely planted upon the forlornshore, spread out their grim skeleton arms, all scorched and charred toblackness by the heats of the long silent years. I now struck off towards the débouchure of the river; but I found thatthe country, though seemingly quite flat, was intersected by deepravines, which did not show themselves until nearly approached.
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