"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." [‎٢‎٢‎٦] (٤٧٤/٣٢٤)

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as those at Constantinople, and there are a few scat
tered about in different places ; but, with these ex
ceptions, they may be said to have been destroyed.
They are frequently cut up for common carpentry,
door and window-frames, as one of the Persian at
tendants told me. Indeed the little wood there is in
Persia they say is fast disappearing.
The Prince of Shirauz is now repairing his gar
den-house adjoining to the Jehan Numa, and for
wood-work he has cut down some very fine plane-
trees planted by Kerim Khan in the Bagh i Vakeel,
which is in the city. My informant, though a ser
vant of the Prince's, spoke of this with evident re
gret, as also of the destruction of Kerim Khan's Hall
of Audience, for the sake of the stones, porphyry
pillars, &c. The Kajars have not built anything
like it.
It is surprising how the memory of Kerim Khan
is still revered at Shirauz. There certainly must
have been something in the man who could so long
secure the grateful recollection even of Persians.
Provisions in abundance were brought to us, con
sisting of very fine mutton, excellent bread, vege
tables of different kinds—and among them nolecole
and badinjans; some of the best nectarines I ever
tasted out of England; pears, apples, and indifferent
plums; almonds, and large black mulberries.
Peaches are just coming in, and promise to be good.
Grapes are not yet in, nor are the pistachios and
walnuts yet ripe. The best grapes are called Rish i