A surprising dimension to flat lands in winter – that they appear all the more horizontal when swathed in mist. Also like that alliterative ‘mist-mired’. 

… the bleak, mist-mired horizontality of the Low Countries.

Source: Justin Marozzi, The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus (London: John Murray, 2009), p. 242

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