"سرد لرحلة إلى موقع مدينة بابل في ١٨١١، طُبعت الآن لأول مرة: مذكرات على الأطلال؛ مع نقوش من الخرائط المدبئية للمؤلف: ملاحظات على طبوغرافية بابل القديمة،بقلم الرائد رينيل؛ في إشارة إلى المذكرات: مذكرات ثانية على الأطلال؛ في إشارة إلى ملاحظات الرائد رينيل: مع سرد لرحلة إلى برسبوليس: طُبعت الآن لأول مرة، مع كتابات مسمارية نسخت في برسبوليس ولم تُنشر من قبل: كتبها الراحل كلوديوس جيمس ريتش، المحترم، المقيم البريطاني السابق لشركة الهند الشرقية في بغداد. حررته أرملته." [‎٣‎١] (٤٧٤/٥٨)

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scription of them than any former traveller, it is still
matter of astonishment that he did not give a fuller
account oi the various heaps which he must have
seen. He describes them generally as a confused
mass of ruined buildings, so covered over with earth,
that they sometimes looked as much like hills as
buildings.
A Caunelite monk, on his return overland from
India, about the year 1657, left Bussorah in a boat
sailing up the Euphrates on the 16th of August;*
and though he says but little of Babylon, the ac
count he gives of his voyage up to it is curious, and
the book being scarce, a few particulars from his
journal are here inserted. They were four days in
getting from Bussorah to Koorna, the point of Me
sopotamia where the Euphrates and Tigris unite.
From thence they sailed up the Euphrates, passing
several places, the names of which are either now
lost, or so changed by the Italian monk, that they
are not recognisable.
After having passed a place he calls Goi, and then
moving on to the two Medinas and Mansura, they
ailived on the 6th day at Saghe, and the following
day they came to Gezzael, by which he probably
means Ghezzail, or the place of residence of the
chief of the Arab tribe of that name, which inhabits
the banks of the Euphrates, below Babylon.
He next speaks of reaching the place where
^ Viaggio all Indie Orientali del Padre F. Vincenzo Maria di
S. Caterina di Sienna, Procurator Generale de Carmelitani Scalzi.