"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." [‎٩] (٤٧٤/٨٤)

JOURNEY TO BABYLON.
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as is used in the present day, which is called
or Jos. I found here written bricks. I am of
opinion that the written bricks must have been laid
with their faces outwards, as I never saw any with
the smallest vestige of bitumen or cement of any kind
on the face where the writing was. On this same
range of mounds are deep ravines, or hollow ways,
more than twenty feet deep. There are excavations
made by those who dig for bricks, in all of which are
vestiges of walls. Near there I saw the half of a large
jar; the other half had been broken in digging.
This jar was fixed in the wall, and near it were seve
ral bones, which easily pulverised between the fingers.
Not far from this, I came to an excavation more
than thirty feet deep, at the foundation of which
was a canal full of water, over which was a floor laid
of cement. This canal, which runs between the
walls, was so deep that they say a horseman might
ride through it. A little further on, on the same ra
vine, the walls on each side are extremely distinct:
the face of the one on the south, or right hand, was
clean and perfect, and between the layers was much
mud. One of the bricks had writing on its external
edge, they being here laid flat. The wall itself was
extremely thick, the inner side of it not being visible,
but buried in the rubbish. I think it could only
have had a facing of the fine brick, as, near the top,
it rises clear of the rubbish, and is only the thickness
of one brick ; and wherever it has been bored, the in
side bricks are found to be infinitely smaller, and of