"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." [‎٢‎٢‎٣] (٤٧٤/٣٢١)

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woods along an excellent road, going as fast as the
mules could amble; and at ten minutes before ten
we arrived at the miserable village Khoneh Zen-
goon ; on entering which we crossed another stream.
We put up in the caravanserai, which was a very
dirty one, but rendered less disagreeable by the
sharpness of the night air. The march had been three
hours and thirty minutes, called three farsakhs.
August 2nd. —We had some milk and butter
here, which were nearly equal to those of England.
At ten minutes past five we mounted, and, keeping
the Karaghatch river close on our right, proceeded
over a country consisting of open downs covered with
bushes only (the wood having now disappeared),
affording excellent cover for game, which is in pro
digious abundance; the partridges crossed our road
in flocks. The country was diversified into hill and
dale, but we were very visibly on the descent during
the greater part of the way. At ten minutes past
eight we halted to wait for the baggage, which the
rapidity of our progress had thrown far in the rear ;
and at twenty-five minutes to ten we again mounted,
and descended over a worse road than that we had
hitherto pursued. After crossing a little stream we
soon came to a more considerable one, which we
forded at the ruins of a bridge. The guide remarked
that all the waters hereabouts had of late consider
ably decreased. We kept the valley of the stream on
our left, the road being rather rocky and precipitous;
and in half an hour's march we came to the Rahdar