"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." [‎١‎٧‎٩] (٤٧٤/٢٦٧)

ON THE RUINS OF BABYLON.
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Euphrates. In my first Memoir I speak of the ruins of
Boursa near the village of Jerbouiya, which is about four
leagues below Hillah, and about half an hour from the
river. I only met with one man at Hillah who recognised
the name of Boursa ; and he was found out for me by the
governor. It is necessary here to explain that I asked for
Boursa by name, from having just read the passage in the
Geography of Herodotus relating to it. This I am aware is a
mode of inquiry w T hich sometimes in the East leads to error;
but whatever may be thought of the name, I have no doubt
concerning the ruins at Jerbouiya, which I have heard
described by several persons who had visited them. Should
any one be tempted to imagine, from the similarity of
names, and the conjecture that Boursa is Borsippa, that
the ruins of the Birs Nemroud are those of the sacred
Tower of the Chaldeans, I can only appeal to the appear
ance of the Birs itself. To suppose that the Birs is Bor-
sippa, and not Babylon, would be to believe that there ex
isted a temple and tower at the former place perfectly re
sembling the gigantic monument of Belus, both in form and
proportions; and that the Temple of Borsippa has resisted
the hand of time, which has obliterated that of Babylon.
I must not finish this Memoir without correcting two in
accuracies of my former one. Tahmasia was, I find, built
by Shah Tahmas, and not by Nadir Shah, as I was inac
curately informed at Hillah; and the Khan half-way be-
tween Bagdad and Hillah is not called Khan Bir Yunus,
or Jonas's Well, but Bir-un-nous (incorrectly for nisf), i. e.
The Well of the Half-way.
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