"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." [‎٢‎٠‎٥] (٤٧٤/٣٠٣)

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brother has turned Armenian, and resides at Bu-
shire. The Armenians seem to have hopes of the
conversion of this brother also.
The proper name of Burauzgoon is Barazjan. It
is a very considerable place, though built chiefly of
mud, with a bazar resembling that of Sulimania.
There are 32 families of Jews here. The people of
the place are all Shiyyahs, and speak a dialect even
more difficult to understand than that of Bushire.
In the afternoon I sauntered out a little to look at
the country. Burauzgoon is about three miles from
the hills, which look very bare. The neighbourhood
of the town is very naked and stony, sprinkled over
with bushes, among which was a very large kind of
milk-wort: hares and antelopes likewise abound.
The hills before us are celebrated for a profusion of
medicinal herbs, as well as partridges and wild
goats.
The governor insisted on sending a man with us
to take a few riflemen at a post on the road, as the
vicinity of Daulekee happens to be unsafe at this
moment. We marched at half-past seven in the
evening, and approached the hills very gradually
over a more stony road, indented and worn with
torrents, than we had hitherto met with. At about
half way we came to a Rahdari, or guard-house,
round which was a considerable village, and here we
took out our guard, who had only matchlocks.
As we approached the hills our noses informed us
we were in the vicinity of sulphur and naphtha.