'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎12] (87/474)

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JOURNEY TO BABYLON.
side* is a mound very nearly as large as the Muje-
lib^, where a hat was found in the time of Ali
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of solid gold, and a goose and some goslings of
pure gold likewise. Ali Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , as soon as he heard of
this discovery, sent after the treasure, but which the
Arabs would not give up. The Governor spoke of a
serdauh, as he called it, in the Mujelibe into which
he and several men had attempted to penetrate, but
as soon as they had proceeded a little way into the
cave their lights were extinguished, as they said, by
an invisible being. I explained to him the natural
cause of this, and requested he would send a man to
point out the spot to me. He sent one of his tchoa-
dars, and I proceeded to the canal I discovered
yesterday—it runs to the south. Mooret went into
it with lights, and found it high enough for a man
to stand upright in; each side of it is walled, and it
is covered where the superstructure of earth and
rubbish has been cleared away, with a large thick
white stone of a soft nature, which I had yesterday
taken for indurated cement. I observed here some
parts of the wall cemented with bitumen, and others
with mortar, but not both together. I found three
kinds of cement—one bitumen or zift, one mortar,
just as it is used at present—and the third a reddish
substance, probably mortar in a different state. This
canal seemingly passes under a street which extends
for a considerable way north and south—and the
^ That is on the west side,
t An English servant of Mr. Rich's.