"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." [‎٢‎٢‎٠] (٤٧٤/٣١٨)

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journey to persepolis,
brooks among trees, which spot I propose to visit to
morrow. We were lodged in a private house, and
found a warm room very agreeable.
August ls£.—The plain is beautifully verdant.
We walked to the springs we saw last night, which
are about a quarter of a mile off. One fine spring
bursts from the rock, and at once becomes a con
siderable stream, assisted by some subordinate ones
which spring from the ground and rocks close by,
and even from the root of a tree. A wild fig-tree
covers the principal spring. The water is like liquid
crystal, and flows through a beautiful grove of fine
plane and willow-trees. It is a lovely spot, and is
dedicated to Ali. They show a slab on which four
holes are said to have been made by the feet of Ali's
horse, who was brought here by a miracle, and killed
a lion. The temperature of the spring was 58°;
that of the air at the same time, in the shade, at half-
past ten a.m ., was 73°.
The cliffs above have partly been shaped by art,
and some caves hollowed out, where the rock is seen
to be very fine white marble. In one of these caves
was a mat, and a lamp burning, as it was reckoned a
holy place. There were two inscriptions, one in
Cufic and the other in Persian; but they were almost
obliterated. This spot is a favourite resort of the Ali
Ullahees,* especially the Nanakeli Koords, of whom
* The same sect as is known in Turkey by the name of Tchiragh
Sonderens, or extinguishers of the light; of whose opinions little or
nothing is known.—E d.