"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." [‎٣‎١‎٤] (٤٧٤/٤٥٧)

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former habitations were visible^ though not so much from
unevenness in the ground as by the strewn fragments of
ruin^ and its nitrous effects. The tomb is rather more
than five miles from Hillah, which we reached by sunset;
that is,, about six minutes past five o'clock."
Sir R. K. Porter's Travels in Georyia, Persia, fyc.
Quarto, Vol. ii. p. 390 — 397.
No. 10.
(Referred to in p. 81 of the first Memoir.)
Ives says of Akerkouf, or, as it is commonly called,
Nimrod's Tower,—" It lies W. by N., distant about nine
miles. We passed the Tigris by the same bridge of boats
before mentioned, and rode through the old city of Bagdad;
from whence, quite up to the tower, ruins of buildings,
either wholly above or somewhat under ground, are still to
be seen; which can be no other than the remains of the
ancient Seleucia. The ground began to rise in a gentle
ascent for half a quarter of a mile before we reached the
tower, occasioned^ as we imagined, by the rubbish of the
old buildings which once stood here. Whether the tower
was at first of a square or round form is now difficult to
determine, though the former is most probable; because all
the remaining bricks are placed square, and not in the least
circular. The bricks are all twelve inches square, and four
inches and a half thick. The cement is of mud or slime
mixed with broken reed, as we mix hair with mortar;
which slime might either have been had from one of the
great rivers, or taken out of one of the swamps in the plain,
with which the country hereabouts very much abounds.