"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." [‎١‎٢‎٠] (٤٧٤/٢٠٨)

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ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF
the palaces at each end of the bridge. As we can
not but admit the existence of palaces after the
circumstantial details respecting them, a doubt arises
whether the temple or the palaces occupied the
centre! In this uncertainty, it may perhaps be al
lowable to place the temple and tower in the centre,
since Herodotus and Diodorus are agreed in that
point; and accordingly regard the Mujelibe as that
centre, although it be of no particular import, in the
present deficient state of our information, which of
the two is adopted.
According to the Plan and description of Mr.
Rich, in which all the remains are on the same side
of the river with the Mujelibe, there cannot, of
course, be any ruins opposite to it, to answer to the
principal palace ; but, on a supposition that the river
has altered its course, such remains are to be found,
though not in front of the Mujelibe, as Herodotus
reports of the temple and tower.
Four mounds (besides the Mujelibe), constituting
the principal remains of Ancient Babylon, appear on
Mr. Rich's Plan, three of which only he has
described in his Memoir; and of these, the one
named from the Kasr or P (meaning the prin
cipal palace) is supposed by him, very justly, in my
opinion, to answer to the remains of that structure.
This opinion is grounded on the vast extent of the
ground-plan, the solidity of the walls, and the supe
rior quality of the materials and workmanship, toge
ther with various articles and fragments of utensils