'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎306] (449/474)

306 APPENDIX. [NO. IX.
vo y a g e en ^ era P^ us exactes recherches, et nous en
donnera la description."
Voyage, en Jrabie, par C. Niebuhr, Tom. ii. p. 234—236.
No. 9.
(Referred to in p. 80 of the first Memoir.)
The following are the descriptions of A1 Hheimar, given
by Mr. Buckingham*, who first visited this ruin, and Sir
R. K. Porterf*, who was there not many years after.
" It was a quarter before nine o'clock/' says Mr-
Buckingham, " w^hen we departed from hence (Hillah) to
extend our excursion more easterly, to which we had been
tempted by the sight of the high mounds in that direction,
as w^ell as by the report of there being one of particular
interest there, called A1 Hheimar. * * *
f< We pursued our way to the eastward. We passed
occasionally long mounds running from N. to S., and saw
others crossing them at right angles from E. to W.
About eleven o'clock we reached a small sheikh's tomb,
with a few date trees near it, standing in the middle of a
dry and burning waste.
There were large mounds and a high pyramidal hill
in sight beyond this, which still tempted me to go on. My
companion, however, being now quite exhausted with the
heat, determined to alight here, and go no further ; more
particularly as we had originally come out on this excur-
* Travels in Mesopotamia. By J. S. Buckingham,
t Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c.
By Sir Robert Ker Porter.