"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." [‎١‎١‎١] (٤٧٤/١٩٩)

ANCIENT BABYLON.
Ill
scription of the regular distribution of streets, in
Ancient Babylon.*
Two minor points of difference will appear, be
tween the received accounts of the ancients, and the
facts, as they appear from the report of Mr. Rich.
The one, that the Tower of Belus and the principal
palace could not have stood opposite to each other,
in respect of the general course of the river ; and the
other, that the base of the Tower of Belus was not
a square, but a parallelogram.
It would, no doubt, be begging the question, to
assume, in the first instance, that the Euphrates had
changed its course; and that it once ran through the
narrow space between the mound of the Kasr,f and
the mass of ruins situated to the north-eastward of it;
unless I first brought forward some kind of evidence
to show the probability of it; as that the several
particulars of the remains on the site required only
the presence of the 'river, in a particular line of course
to complete the general description, given by the an
cients ; and that such a change of course appears
likely to have taken place : for instance, that the
Mujelibe really occupies a central position, amongst
the extensive remains, which may be taken for those
of Ancient Babylon, as the Tower of Belus did, in
former times, in the existing city ; that the same
* See the accompanying Plan of the site of the principal remains of
Babylon, by Mr. Rich; as also the Sketch of the general extent of
those remains, and of the supposed change in the course of the
Euphrates,
t See again the Plan of Babylon.