Lawrence’s Undergraduate Dissertation – Page 9
Lawrence’s Undergraduate Dissertation
Page 9
Mellaha
Passage book 528 p. 101
Zafirat in the Widian district of Mesopotamia. The Mellaha is a ‘salt rock’, and zafirat is bitumen springs: that black stuff that oozes from the ground and covers pools of water. There was a great mellaha there, perhaps two miles long, with a canal cut through the [illegible] salt to collect the brine, which was then evaporated. [Two or three words illegible]
The bottom fellah called the canal Shat el Mellah. Near by was a village Tulleyetha with hundreds of mud huts and many bitumen springs.
Prus x 7
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