"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." [‎١‎١‎٣] (٤٧٤/٢٠١)

I
ANCIENT BABYLON.
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" to which, is a large canal with a bridge over it:
" beyond this, every thing announces an approach to
" the remains of a large city.
" may in fact be said almost
" spot ; the whole country Hillah
" exhibiting, at intervals,
" which are discoverable
" and bitumen : three mounds, in particular, attract
" attention, from their magnitude." " Hillah is
" nine miles from Mohawill*."
He also says (p. 68) that " at a mile distant from
" the north of the Kasr" (taken for the remains of the
principal palace), "and full five miles distant from
" Hillah, is the Mujelibe." As this latter is known to
lie nearly in the direct line between Mohawill and
Hillah, it must of course be about four miles distant
from the former. (His detail, however, referring to
p. 58, and to the Plan, gives rather 4| miles than
five from Hillah; leaving of course, miles to
Mohawill.) But taking it either way, the Mujelibe
falls within a quarter, or half a mile, of the
point of the space occupied by the heaps of ruins,
and which, as we have seen, is nine miles in length 5
that is, somewhat within the extent allowed by
* This description of traces of buildings, occurring at intervals,
appears to agree with the ancient accounts of Babylon that the
ground inclosed by the walls was only partially built on. The heaps,
no doubt, are made up of decomposed bricks, bitumen, and mortar,
the whole bricks having generally disappeared, in places where they
were easily got at; and from the nature of the cement used, (that is,
bitumen,) easily separated.