'Narrative of a journey to the site of Babylon in 1811, now first published: memoir on the ruins; with engravings from the original sketches by the author: remarks on the topography of ancient Babylon, by Major Rennell; in reference to the memoir: second memoir on the ruins; in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon. East India Company at Bagdad. Edited by his widow.' [‎7] (18/474)

preface.
use in the progress which appears, at length,
to be making in deciphering this hitherto unknown
character, both by some learned foreigners*, and by
Major Rawlinson, an English officer in Persia, who
thinks that he has deciphered an inscription of great
length, recording the conquest of Darius the
Younger.
In a work of this nature the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. has necessarily
been much indebted to others, and is happy to have
this opportunity of acknowledging her obligations to
Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart.; the Hon. Mounstuart
Elphinstone; General Briggs ; Colonel Chesney ;
and William Erskine, Esq.; who have most kindly
afforded her such assistance and information as she
requested of them.
Not ting-hill, January llth, 1839.
* The labours of Raske, Grotefend, and St. Martin, have
been some time before the public. Since that time the German
traveller Schulz made copies of some inscriptions near Hamadan,
which were submitted to M. Burnouf, a French savant, who is
equally skilled in Greek, Sanscrit, and Zend; and he has written an
essay on Schulz's inscription ; and, by an examination with other
inscriptions, he has framed a Zend alphabet of the cuneiform
character.
Lassen, a countryman of Burnouf, and who is likewise a good
Sanscrit and Zend scholar, has also read and translated these tablets;
and his alphabet is said not to differ much from Burnouf's. Burnouf
has printed a work, in two volumes, called " Commentaries on the
Ye^na," on the same subject.