Note 227 — Chapter XV · CAMPAIGN IN SYRIA.—TAKING OF DAMASCUS.—BATTLE OF FIHL. A.H. XIV. A.D. 635.
Reading edition
The landscape between the Haurân and the Jordan is well described by Laurence Oliphant, Land of Gilead, p. 62. See also Chesney’s Euphrates Expedition (London, 1850), vol. i. pp. 512–515, where he speaks of the nightingale in these parts.