By the late JAMES PAYN. REVISED, ENLARGED, AND CHEAPER EDITION OF 'COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS.'
— from Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore, Mrs.

What we saw, wherever we looked, was an inextricable tumble of mountains, without order or leading line of direction,—domes, peaks, ridges, endless and countless, everywhere, some in shadow, some tipped with shafts of sunlight, all wooded and green or black, and all in more softened contours than our Northern hills, but still wild, lonesome, terrible.
— from On Horseback by Charles Dudley Warner