"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." [‎٤‎٨] (٤٧٤/١٢٦)

48 MEMOIR ON THE RUINS
one of the same name, which is still standing,
though deserted. All around it are vestiges of
building, which would seem to indicate the prior ex
istence of some large town, and the bricks of which
it is built were dug up on the spot. The first khan
on the Kerbela or rather Musseib road, called Miz-
rakjee Oghlou, from the name of the Bagdad mer
chant who founded it, is very near this, on the same
line; and Musseib itself is visible in the direction of
S. 80 W. From Iskenderia to Khan Hajee Sulei
man (a mean building erected by an Arab) is a dis
tance of upwards of eight miles; and at this khan
the road is traversed by a canal cut from the Eu
phrates at the village of Naseria (which bears N. 20
W. from the road), and is full of water in the
spring, as are many of the canals between this and
Hillah.
Four miles from Hajee Suleiman is Mohawil, also
a very indifferent khan, close to which is a large
canal, with a bridge over it: beyond this every thing
announces an approach to the remains of a large city.
The ruins of Babylon may in fact be said almost to
commence from this spot, the whole country between
it and Hillah exhibiting, at intervals, traces of build
ing, in which are discoverable burnt and unburnt
bricks and bitumen; three mounds in particular at
tract attention from their magnitude. The ground
to the right and left of the road bears the appearance
of being partially, and occasionally, a morass, though,
at the time we passed it, it was perfectly dry: the