"Asphaltite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shows the longer stretch of the Triestine bifurcation. Yamm Elath or Eloth, as the Hebrews called El-'Akabah, has, by the upheaval of the land, lost more of its fair proportions than its western sister. It was at one time the embouchure of the Jordan, extending up the Wady el-'Arabah to the Asphaltite Lake (Dead Sea), before the former became, so to speak, a hill and the latter a hole. This view dates from olden times. "Si suppone," says Cornelius Lapide,[EN119] "che sia un sollevamento che accadde, mentre un abbassamento ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton |
