Word: latakia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with a humorous satire on the misadventures of an Oxford professor of Arabic who in imagination has been transferred to the heaven of his studies and there meets with the author, as described in the following All the land is misty and fragrant with the perfume of the softest Latakia, and the gardens are musical with the bubbling of countless naghiles; and I must say that to the Christian soul which enters that paradise the whole place has, certainly, a rather curions air, as of a highly transcendental Cremorne. There could be no doubt, however, that the faithful were enjoying...