"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] (٤٧٤/١٠٦)

JOURNEY TO BABYLON.
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the Mesjid Ali gate (Bab-ul Mesjid), on the inside
of which the Pasha of Bagdad has begun building a
new wall to the town, of bricks dug up from the
Kasr 5 and it seems constructed on a much better
plan than the old one.
The morning was at first stormy, and threatened
rain, but it afterwards cleared up. On our right we
had the village of Tahmasia, embosomed in a grove
of date-trees. It is a small village, said to have been
built by Shah Tahmas.
We arrived at the Birs about half-past eleven.
There are vestiges of mounds all round it to a con
siderable extent, and the country is also traversed by
canals in every direction. The soil round the Birs
was sandy. To the north of it runs a canal called
Hindia, dug for the use of Mesjid Ali, by order, and
at the expense of, Shujah ud Doulah. Close to the
Birs, or at about a hundred yards from it, and
parallel to its southern front, is a high mound, almost
equal in size to that of the Kasr. On the top of it
are two koubbehs, or places of prayer. The one is
called Ibrahim Khalil, where they show his burial-
place, which is under ground, exactly in the style of
Amran Ibn Ali. The natives tell you that it was
here that Abraham was thrown into the fire by Nim-
rod. This tomb has been lately repaired. Close to
it is a ruin called Mekam Saheb Zeman, which ap
pears to relate to Meh'hdy; but what particular or
circumstance it was destined to celebrate, I was not
able to learn. Under this, in the side of the mound,