'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎307] (450/474)

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sion in search of a mound called A1 Hheimar, which is said
to be only five miles to the E. of Hillah, and which,
though we were now more then ten miles from that town,
in the direction named, we had not yet discovered. I
accordingly left Mr. Bellino and the Koord horseman at
the tomb to repose in the shade, and pushed on alone,
being soon after followed by the horseman whom Mr. Rich
had sent with us, and who was unwilling probably to
have it thought that he could not brave heat and thirst
as well as a stranger.
"We still went eastward, passing in the way, as before,
several detached heaps covered with burnt brick and fine
pottery, and crossing two or three large and wide ranges
of double mounds going N. and S., which, from their ap
pearance, might either have been canals or streets. *
Beyond the last of these double mounds scattered frag
ments of burnt brick began to be more abundant than we
had before seen them, and marked the former existence of
some great work all along the eastern extremity of the
city. These continued to be seen, not in large heaps or con-
nected masses, as is usually the case, but lying loosely on
the ground as if they were merely the refuse of better
materials taken away from hence; until, in half an
hour after quitting the tomb of the saint, we reached the
foot of the hill A1 Hheimar, which I had come thus far to
examine.
" We found it to be a high mound of loose rubbish, so steep
at the base as not to be ascended on horseback, and extremely
difficult to get up, even on foot. We went up on the
western side, where the ascent was easiest, though there it
was still steep ; and on the eastern it was apparently much
more so. The hill presented at a short distance the ap
pearance of a pyramidal cone, the outline of which formed
nearly an equilateral triangle, and its summit seemed to be