'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎253] (387/474)

JOURNEY TO PERSSEPOLIS.
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staircase is gone ; only twenty-four lines of it remain,
and the upper ones of these are much defaced. The
corresponding two tablets have been prepared for the
inscriptions, but none have ever been engraved on
them. The Zend inscription, the only one left, con
trary to the usual plan, is at the right hand.
In taking a ride yesterday evening, Mr. Tod dis
covered in the rocks, at a short distance to the south
of the ruins, an unfinished royal sepulchre. The
upper compartment, an altar and a figure, were
finished, but no cave had yet been hollowed out.
The stones had been carefully cut away in laige
blocks, as if intended to be used in building. On the
left side were two figures sketched and roughly
hewn, but not terminated. To the north of the ruins,
towards Nakshi Regib, are some very small hewn
caves. All along the hill, and even close to the
ruins, are blocks of stone ; some hewn out, some not
yet perfectly detached from the rock. There are two
figures also lying down, but in a shattered state.
The stones at Persepolis have evidently all been
cramped with iron, as at Morghaub, but it has all
disappeared. When there has been a split on a laig
block, it has been carefully cramped ; and where the
stone has had a flaw, or has not been of a due foun
for the sculpture, a piece has been added and neat y
fastened with iron.
The northernmost of the eastern buildings, which
is the largest and most magnificent has had at
its northern face a colonnade or portico, with a