"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." [‎٢‎٩‎٣] (٤٧٤/٤٣٦)

NO. IV.]
APPENDIX.
293
No. 4.
(Referred to in p. 58 of the first Memoir.)
" W hen Cyrus got to Babylon he posted his whole army
round the city, then rode round it himself, together with
his friends, and with such of his allies as he thought
proper. • • •
" When they were encamped, Cyrus summoned to him
the proper persons and said, ' Friends and allies, we have
taken a view of the city round, and I do not find that I can
discover how it is posssible for one, by any attack, to make
oneself master of walls that are so strong and so high; but
the greater the numbers of men in the city are (since they
venture not out to fight), so much the sooner, in my opmion,
they may be taken by famine.. Therefore, unless you have
some other method to propose, I say that these men must
be besieged and taken in that manner.' Then Chrysantas
said, ' Does not this river, that is above two stades over,
through the midst of the city?'-'Yes, by Jove! said
Gobrias; 'and it is of so great a depth that two men, one
standing upon the other, would not reach above the wate.
so that the city is yet stronger by the river than by its
walls' Then Cyrus said, ' Chrysantas, le us ay
I ' Jg, .hi are above cue feree, I. is - bm.uess.
these tn g ^ broad an d deep a ditch as
we e™, eKhpIrt of as m'oasuring out hie proportion that
h y this tneans we
"So, measuring out the g ffi - t fo j aree
ftom the side ^
turrets, he dug rou toW ards themselves. In
and they Jhrew^the^rth^ ^ ^
the first place, he ui than a
their foundation upon palm -trees that were