"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." [‎٢‎٣‎٧] (٤٧٤/٣٣٥)

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which prevails, and which they attribute to t^he
grapes, as it always appears at this season ; but they
say when it rains at the same time, which sometimes
happens, the sickness is always greater. This village
belongs to Aga Baba Khan of Shirauz ; and the
peasantry, who speak a very curious dialect of
Persian, complain much of grievous extortions; but
they attribute it all to the Kajar government.
AugustIQth. —We left the Baugh at a quarter
after four, and forded the river, which we kept for
some time on our right. A promontory advancing
from the right of the valley seems as if it closed it
up, but we found that the valley rounded it and took
its usual south-easterly course again. I observed
there was a great tendency to wood hereabouts, even
in very rocky places; and in the level places near
the river there were some fine trees of willow,
mountain ash, &c.
We again forded the river, which was here much
deeper, and very full of high bulrushes*.
The village of Siwend originally stood hereabouts,
but was ruined by the Afghans.
The valley or pass now expanded into the vale of
Killalek, or Kilmun, on the left side of which
were high and precipitous rocks of a black colour, at
the foot of which gushed a little stream of very fine
water.
* There is a road on the other bank which goes direct to Mor-
ghaub, distant about seven farsakhs.