Crossword-Solution: HAMADA 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Its principal buildings are warehouses, pleasure resorts for sailors, and a few large dingy hotels, which are always overcrowded with guests waiting for steamers to Osaka, to Bakkan, to Hamada, to Niigata, and various other ports.

The sand-blown black rock, the _hamada_, lies all about; the mountains of the Ksour that back the scene to the northeast are reddish in color and severe in outline, and the mountains of Morocco, cut here by three passes, block it to the north and west with their heavy and wild masses, while other detached heights are seen far off to the south.

The old ksar lay far off to the left, the Zousfana to the north, and between was the unobstructed stretch of the rocky _hamada_, herbless and strewn with small and broken stones, to where we saw a line of straggling palms beneath the Morocco hillside.

Between Ghardaia and Ouargla are undulating stony plains, the Gantara (_hamada_), large salt spots, the chotts, and a prominent range of sand mountains, _areg_ desert, possibly 1,000 feet high.

This constitutes the hamada, or stony desert, of which the largest portion of the surface of the Sahara is probably composed.