'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎155] (243/474)

RUINS OF BABYLON.
cerning the particular parts of them, about which
Major Rennell seems to think I have not been suf
ficiently explicit in my former Memoir. I was
fearful of becoming tedious by expatiating on mis
shapen heaps of rubbish, which are much better un
derstood by a drawing, except—like the mound of
the Kasr—they happen to contain within their gene
ral mass some peculiarity worthy of remark. It is
on this account, and not because I had not examined
them, that I passed the little heaps which lie be
tween the Kasr and the Mujelibe without particular
mention, after having satisfied myself that they con
tained nothing which required one. They are in
fact nothing more than low heaps, or traces of build
ing extending in that direction, of no elevation or
determined form, precisely as I have laid them down
in my Plan. Major Rennell seems, however, to con
sider them as requisite to the formation of his theory.
He calls them the " north-east mounds," in the sketch
of the site of Ancient Babylon (drawn chiefly from
the information contained in my Memoir) which he
has prefixed to his " Remarks has assigned them a
place, form, and magnitude to which they are by no
means entitled,* and conjectures them to be the ruins
of the least and oldest of the palaces mentioned by
Diodorus.
I observe some other alterations from my plan,
which are not wholly immaterial: especially an
* Vide the Sketch prefixed to his " Remarks," &c. (D.)