"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." [‎٢‎٥‎٨] (٤٧٤/٤٠١)

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JOURNEY TO PERSEPOLIS.
The fire-temple, which stands in a square heap of
rubbish (as of ruins), is a neat, well-finished, and
very solid building, and surprisingly fresh. Indeed
everything here looks very fresh.
In returning home I noticed a square solid plat
form of large stones before the mouth of the defile,
near the south side. This the natives is a part
of the Takht i Jemsheed, which is the only name by
which Persepolis is now known ; and my observa
tion of these ruins confirms their report,*
Hereabouts I remarked numerous Eliauts (mostly
of the Sanjarlee tireh) of the Nefer tribe, who are
Turhs.\ The Nefer is a large tribe, of which there
are seven tirehs or branches, such as the Sanjarlee,
Heiderlu, &c. The peasantry were everywhere
treading out the corn.
It had been long dark when we returned home.
Mr. Tod, though tired, had the complaisance to get
up at midnight to count at the chronometer for
me, whilst I took circum-meridian altitudes of Fo-
malhaut.
August28th. —This morning about a hundred
families of Eliauts passed on their way to a fresh
place of encampment. They called themselves
^ I was told of two other places where sculptures and inscriptions
are to be seen, which have never been visited by Europeans The
one is called Ukted, a mountain south-west of, and forty farsakhs
from, Shirauz : the other is Kelaut, at one hour and a half from
the former. At Fasa likewise are some sculptures ; and at Naha-
vend; and in Loristan.
t I observe the Turkish Eliauts always call the Persian language
Taujiki.