"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." [‎١‎١‎٢] (٤٧٤/٢٠٠)

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ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF
Mujelibe may well pass for the remains of that
tower; and that two mounds or masses of ruins, that
appear on the Plan, may be taken for those of the
two palaces, described by Diodorus; only that the
river does not separate them, as the history describes,
the narrow space between the mounds now forming
a part of the plain; for, as I have said, according
to the plan of the ground, and principal remains, hy
Mr. Rich, (and which I can have no doubt are
strictly conformable to the truth,) all the remains
are on the same side of the Euphrates; that is, the
eastern side ; (for I lay out of the question, at
present, the Nimroud Birs, which is about 8| miles
distant from the Mujelibe). Therefore, if the
Euphrates has not changed its course, in a small
degree, the ancients, who have left accounts of the
arrangement and distribution of the principal struc
tures in Babylon, have only been amusing us with
fairy tales!
I shall now proceed to state certain facts, col
lected from Mr. Rich's Memoir and Plan, (in which
they are very fairly set forth,) in order to show the
probability of a change of course of the river; which
has now left all the principal remains on the eastern
side; although the principal palace, and the hanging
gardens certainly stood on the opposite side to the
Temple and Tower of Belus.
Mr. Rich states (p. 48) that in his way from
Bagdad towards Hillah, (in a southerly direction,) he
came to Mohawill, a Khan, or Caravanserai; " close