"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." [‎١‎٢] (٤٧٤/٨٧)

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JOURNEY TO BABYLON.
side* is a mound very nearly as large as the Muje-
lib^, where a hat was found in the time of Ali
Pasha of solid gold, and a goose and some goslings of
pure gold likewise. Ali Pasha, as soon as he heard of
this discovery, sent after the treasure, but which the
Arabs would not give up. The Governor spoke of a
serdauh, as he called it, in the Mujelibe into which
he and several men had attempted to penetrate, but
as soon as they had proceeded a little way into the
cave their lights were extinguished, as they said, by
an invisible being. I explained to him the natural
cause of this, and requested he would send a man to
point out the spot to me. He sent one of his tchoa-
dars, and I proceeded to the canal I discovered
yesterday—it runs to the south. Mooret went into
it with lights, and found it high enough for a man
to stand upright in; each side of it is walled, and it
is covered where the superstructure of earth and
rubbish has been cleared away, with a large thick
white stone of a soft nature, which I had yesterday
taken for indurated cement. I observed here some
parts of the wall cemented with bitumen, and others
with mortar, but not both together. I found three
kinds of cement—one bitumen or zift, one mortar,
just as it is used at present—and the third a reddish
substance, probably mortar in a different state. This
canal seemingly passes under a street which extends
for a considerable way north and south—and the
^ That is on the west side,
t An English servant of Mr. Rich's.