"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." [‎٢‎٧] (٤٧٤/١٠٢)

JOURNEY TO BABYLON.
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sages are so ruinous tliat it is impossible to say what
could have been their original design. Fronting the
place where we descended, at about the height of
eight feet from the bottom, in the wall, was the coffin
the men had discovered. I stood by and observed
them by the light of the mashall, while they dug it
out, standing on a ladder. They could only pull it
out piece by piece; sometimes the bones came out
with occasionally pieces of the coffin. I could not
find the skull, nor collect a perfect skeleton. In
digging a little further we found the bones of a
young child. These with the bodies found before
seem to prove this place to have been a cemetery.
The person whom I employed assured me that the
black boots mentioned above were nothing more than
bitumen. On the top of the mound I observed
burnt bricks, not perfect in shape, laid in layers of
mortar.
From the place whence they dug out the bones
they pulled out several fine burnt bricks, perfect in
shape, some of which had writing on them, and
bitumen adhering to the other side. In my ride
home over the mound of the Kasr, I heard of a
large statue which had been found some time ago,
but had been covered up again. I immediately took
steps to procure it, and hope to be in possession of it
to-morrow.
I sent Moore to measure the river ; he found it to
be 75 fathoms broad at Hillah, 21 in depth ; and the