'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎303] (446/474)

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I got a view of appeared to be nothing but a shapeless
mass; it was evident,, however, that it was not a simple
block, as it bore marks of the chisel, and there were pretty
deep holes in it; but I could not find any inscription on it.
The stone is of a black grain ; and, from the large frag
ments of it found in many places, it appears that there
were some monuments of stone built here. On the eastern
side I found a stone nearly two feet square, and six inches
thick, of a beautiful granite, the grain of which was white
and red. All these stones must have been brought from some
distance, as this part of the desert contains none. On the
same side of the city, as I was told by the master mason,
there were walls of varnished bricks which he supposed to
have been a temple."
M ajor R ennell's History of Herodotus, page 367.
No. 7.
(Referred to in p. 73 of the first Memoir.;
Niebuhr says of the ruins of Babylon" II n'y a
aucun doute que Babylone n'ait et6 situ^e dans la contree
de Helle. Car non seulement les habitans appellent, encore
aujourd'hui cette contree Ard Babel, mais on trouve encore
ici des restes d'une ancienne ville qui ne peut pas en avoir
fete une autre que Babylone. A en juger meme par ces
mines il semble que Helle se trouve dans I'enceinte de la
muraille de la ville de Babylone, mais quand on parle
d'antiquites Babyloniennes il ne faut pas s'attendre a de si
superbes monumens que Ton en trouve encoie en Perse et
en Egypte. A Persepolis on trouve le plus beau marbre
tout pres de la ville et mfeme dans la colline sur laquelle
le cfelebre palais etait Mti. La pierre a cbaux dont es
grandes pyramides dans le voisinage de Kahira sont faites
se trouve a I'endroit mSme; outre cela on y rencontre