'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎250] (360/474)

JOURNEY TO PERSEPOLIS.
running down. I speak as looking at the door. I
was much struck with Grotefend's* sagacity.
There are no inscriptions on any of the buildings
in the east quarter, or lowest part of the platform.
I was much surprised at the strange corrupted
dialect spoken by some Arabs I met here, which
was, however, intelligible. They were of a tribe
called the Kishikjees, which encamps hereabouts;
but I should never have distinguished them from the
other Lliauts. 1 hey had much ol the deep guttural.
I understand they are connected with or belong to
the two tribes here of the Beni Jebbar and Beni
Sheiban.f
August 26th. —On the face of the platform on
which Niebuhr's building G stands are three inscrip
tions,^; which I laid open, and copied.§ They are
A German, who applied himself to the deciphering of the arrow-
headed characters of Babylon and Persepolis.—E d.
t A book was brought me transcribed in a.h. 670, by a man who
entitles himself El Shebani El Facri, which proves the establishment
of the Sheibani Arabs in Pars at that period.
$ See Plates 20, 21, 22.
} Niebuhr says, respecting this building and the inscriptions,
L edifice G est du moins de huit pieds plus haut que les colonnades.
II semble a proportion de sa grandeur avec celles des autres batimens
que celui-ci est fait le plus fort, et les murailles, ou plutut les fenetres
et les fausses fenetres, sont aussi encore les mieux polies. Comme le
vent n a point ici un passage aussi libre qu'aupres des colonnades, il y
a beaucoup de poussiere dans cette edifice et autour, que le vent y a
portee—ce qui fait aussi, que le fondement au c6t£ meridional de
"edifice n'a que deux et demi pieds de hauteur sur la terre. On
voit encore ici les bonnets des figures, qui d'ailleurs sont couvertes de
poussiere, trois inscriptions, et divers ornemens. Si j'avais eu avec
moi les Voyages de Chardin et de la Bruyn, et que j'eusse su ainsi