Crossword-Solution: CHOTTS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

They are dead, the American grasses under; There is no one now who presses my side; By the African chotts I am riding asunder, And with great joy ride I the last great ride.

These districts occupy the beds of vast ancient lakes, now almost dry, of which the existing _chotts_, or very salt pools, are the last shrunken and evanescent relics.

She looked westward, across the river to the ugly village with the dried palm-leaves on its roofs, and far away to the white-domed city, the dimpling oases and the mountainous dunes that towered against a flaming sky; then eastward, towards the two vast desert lakes, or chotts, one of blue water, the other of saltpetre, which looked bluer than water, and had pale edges that met the sand like snow on gold.

The greater part of North Africa lies at a higher level, the exception being a chain of old lake beds or chotts on the border of Algeria.

There are great _chotts_ or marsh tracts, even depressions where a murky alkaline water, unfit for man or beast, is always to be found, vast stretches of rocky plateau, great dunes of sand and even jutting peaks of bare and wind-swept rock, with surfaces as smooth as if washed by the waves of the ocean.