"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." [‎٧‎٥] (٤٧٤/١٥٩)

OF BABYLON.
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The Birs Nemroud is a mound of an oblong figure,
the total circumference of which is seven hundred
and sixty-two yards. At the eastern side it is cloven
by a deep furrow, and is not more than fifty or sixty
feet high; but at the western it rises in a conical
figure, to the elevation of one hundred and ninety-
eight feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of brick,
thirty-seven feet high by twenty-eight in breadth,
diminishing in thickness to the top, which is broken
and irregular, and rent by a large fissure extending
through a third of its height. It is perforated by
small square holes disposed in rhomboids. The fine
burnt bricks of which it is built have inscriptions
on them; and so admirable is the cement, which ap
pears to be lime-mortar, that, though the layers are
so close together, that it is difficult to discern what
substance is between them, it is nearly impossible to
extract one of the bricks whole. The other parts
of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense
fragments of brick-work, of no determinate figure,
tumbled together and converted into solid vitrified
masses, as if they had undergone the action of the
fiercest fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, the
layers of the bricks being perfectly discernible,—a
curious fact, and one for which I am utterly inca
pable of accounting. These, incredible as it may
seem, are actually the ruins spoken of by Pere Ema
nuel, who takes no sort of notice of the prodigious
mound on which they are elevated.*
* Le P. Emanuel dit avoir vu (dans la partie oceidentale) de