"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." [‎٥‎١] (٤٧٤/١٢٩)

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mosque derives its appellation. It is a small build
ing, having instead of a minaret an obelisk, or rather
hollow cone fretted on the outside like a pine-apple,
placed on an octagonal base: this form, which is a
very curious one, I have observed in several very old
structures, particularly the tomb of Zobeide, the
wife of Haroun-al-raschid at Bagdad, and I am in
formed it cannot now be imitated. On the top of
the cone is a mud cap, elevated on a pole, resem
bling the cap of liberty. This, they say, revolves with
the sun; a miracle I had not the curiosity to verify.
The inside of the mosque is supported by rows of
short pillars about two feet in girth: from the top of
each spring pointed arches, in form and combina
tion resembling in a striking manner the Gothic
architecture. It contains nothing remarkable except
what the people show as the tomb of the prophet
Joshua. This country abounds in supposed tombs
of prophets. On the Tigris, between Bagdad and
Bussora, they show the sepulchre of Ezra; twelve
miles in the Desert to the S. W. of Hillah is that
of Ezechiel, and to the southward the tomb of Job;
the two former are places of pilgrimage of the Jews,
who do not acknowledge those of Job and Joshua.
The district of Hillah extends from Husseinia
(which is a canal leading from the Euphrates near
Musseib to Imam Hussein) on the north, to the
town of Hasca on the south. It is governed by a
Bey, who is always a Turk or Georgian, appointed
by the Pasha of Bagdad, from whom the govern-
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