"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." [‎٢‎٢‎٨] (٤٧٤/٣٢٦)

JOURNEY TO PERSEPOLIS.
in fresco, and at each end was a portrait of Hafiz
and Sadi, very coarsely done. That of Hafiz, how
ever, has something of the character of the fine por
trait of him in my possession, but the beard is long
and white; that of Sadi has only whiskers. They
are not ancient, as I was informed by our guide, who
said they were painted in Kerim Khan's time.
Augmt 7 th. —Went to see the Prince's new gar
den adjoining ours. This is his favourite retreat,
and contains three kiosks, each accompanied by
smaller rooms ; one ordinary one at the gate, a finer
one in the centre, and the finest of all at the top of
the garden, which slopes downwards. Before the
upper hall is a tolerable large reservoir of water,
which is conducted down the centre of the garden in
a narrow stream studded with little jets-d'eau, and
bordered with young plane and poplar-trees. The
paintings in the kiosks are in bad taste and ill exe
cuted, and the gilding and ornaments are coarse and
glaring. There is one ridiculous representation of
the king m full court receiving an English ambassa
dor, who is represented in a suppliant posture. The
drawing and the costume are both quite ludicrous.
Those kind of sand-spouts, or whirlwinds, which
are called in India, Devils, are very common in the
plain of Shirauz, and often present a very curious ap
pearance, when ten or twelve of them may be seen
at once in different places, rising into the air like
hu b e columns. They are generally seen commenc
ing by rising out of the earth with violence, like a