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Examples
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Metlaoui, the Djerid oases, and the Chott country.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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From its summit one perceives distant forms of ruinous buildings rising up in the Tozeur direction, on the slope which inclines to the Chott.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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We rode out to the Chott to see the extraction of the salt, which is a Government monopoly; the track leads past a famous lotus, a Methuselah among trees, whose shadow covers 120 square metres of ground and whose branches are so long, so weary with age, that they bend downward and touch the earth with their elbows -- to rest, as it were -- and then rise up again, refreshed.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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Once the rock-portal is passed, it unlearns all its sprightly grace and trickles disconsolately through the sands, expiring, at last, in the dreary Chott el Rharsa.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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Walking from Nefta to the Chott, you will reach, on the burning plain, a maraboutic shrine that might serve as an asylum for some conscience-stricken, malaria-proof penitent.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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Chott, agreeable to the palate though rather yellowish in colour.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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For it was a lake, or series of lakes, and nothing else; geological evidence is opposed to the supposition that the Chott country was ever a gulf of the Mediterranean within historical times -- it was merely a chain of inland waters.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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Chott towards their vital sources, which now lie under a respectable precipice of sand.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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The imagination of an Edgar Poe might picture these Nefta gardens as the reverse of those of Semiramis -- sunk, that is, further into the profundities of the earth than the already existing Sahara plantations -- with this difference, that here, to obviate infiltration from the ooze of the Chott, sturdy walls must enclose them.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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The noble gesticulations looked well on that bare sandy dune, in the face of the Chott.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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