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There is land in sight—very low land,—a thin dark line suggesting marshiness; and the nauseous color of the water always deepens.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio

Persian Gulf, flatness and marshiness of the region around, 7; reached further inland than now, 201.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)