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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)

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