'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎234] (332/474)

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JOURNEY TO PERSEPOLIS.
jik danisheiler Turkee bilmezler")—meaning to
say by this that it was Pe they spoke. Poor
Bellino ! how I thought of thee at this moment * !
We left the garden at twenty minutes to five,
and directed our course to the prolongation of the
Persepolis hills, which we afterwards skirted along
on our right f. A little after five we came to
Naksh i Regib, in a nook which one might pass a
thousand times without perceiving. The front and
two sides are sculptured, and still retain a beautiful
polish. Some of the heads are manifestly Arsacian,
the rest are all truly Sassanian. There are one
Greek and two Sassanian inscriptions.
The rocks in which these sculptures are found
soon terminate, forming the side of a pass or valley;
on the opposite side of whichlies Naksh i Eustum,'
under crags and mountains.
We pursued our way up the right side of the val
ley, and soon came to the remains of a city, or rather
a square castle, composed of elevated mounds; the
ditch was very perceptible, as well as the traces of
towers all round. It is very evident that the river
which runs through the valley must at one period
have been divided into two branches, in order to fill
the ditch. At present it runs only round the north
. * ^ B w elll . n0 < Ml :- Rich ' s secretary), who had not long been
o t ir:^ hs t R r d ;r in Koordistan ' vo1 - »• p-126), was mud,
^ l l f y f Stem lan S ua S es ' and this remark of the
peasant tended to confirm some of his theories.—E d.
cZ! T 1 /? a T i0US fomation of bent stra ta of marble, as if the
centre had been elevated before the mass had become qnite solid,