"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." [‎٨‎٣] (٤٧٤/١٦٧)

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inhabitants of the opposite quarter of the town were
not aware of it till the third part of the day, i. three
hours after sunrise ; which was very possibly owing
to the great distance of one cluster of houses from
another, since, had they been connected with each
other in regular streets, the noise and confusion
would, I think, have spread the information of the
event with much greater rapidity.
All accounts agree in the height of the walls,
which was fifty cubits, having been reduced to these
dimensions from the prodigious height of three hun
dred and fifty feet, by Darius Hystaspes, after the
rebellion of the town, in order to render it less de
fensible. I have not been fortunate enough to dis
cover the least trace of them, in any part of the ruins
at Hillah; which is rather an unaccountable circum
stance, considering that they survived the final ruin
of the town, long after which they served as an en
closure for a park ; in which comparatively perfect
state, St. Jerome informs us, they remained in his
time. Nor can the depredations subsequently com
mitted on them in the building of Hillah, and other
similar small places, satisfactorily account for their
having totally disappeared; for, though it is evident
they would have been the first object to attract the
attention of those who searched after bricks; yet,
when they had been thoroughly dilapidated, the mass
of rubbish, which most probably formed the heart or
substance of them, together with the very deep ditch,
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