"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." [‎١‎٣‎٢] (٤٧٤/٢٢٠)

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ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF
Mr Rich has expressed a wish in his Memoir to
learn the opinions of other persons respecting the ob
jects of his future researches. Certain of the re
marks in the foregoing pages may be conceived ap
plicable to this purpose. If it be possible to trace
certain portions of the exterior ditch and of the
mounds of rubbish, which the remains of the walls
cannot but have left in most places, this object ap
pears to be of the most importance, as a knowledge
of the exterior must infalliby lead to that of the cen
tral positions. Accordingly, taking the or
the Kasr for a supposed centre (merely as a point to
reckon from in the first instance), the traces ot the
rubbish of the walls, and ol the hollows left by the
ditches, may be sought in the direction of the four
cardinal points, generally, within the limits assigned
to the extent of the site ; that is, from about four to
five miles from the centre; for the statement of
Herodotus, at 120 stadia for each side, appears ex
cessive and improbable. Wheresoever the mound
and ditch may be fallen upon, it should of course be
pursued with a view of finding the angle or return
of the adjoining side, and so forward.
But if the canal of Mohawill lies in the probable
direction of the city wall (a circumstance that must
be known to Mr. Rich), that is likely to afford the
most certain clue to the whole. And if the heaps of
ruins are dispersed through all the different quarters,
as they are in the line described by Mr. Rich, be
tween Mohawill and Hillah, these ought to mark