'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎320] (463/474)

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The following account of these ruins is by John
Eldred, an English merchant, who travelled in the year
1583
" We landed at Felugia the 8th and 20th of June, where
we made our abode seven dayes, for lack of camels to carie
our goods to Babylon. The heat at that time of the
yeare is such in those parts that men are loath to let out
their camels to travel!. This Felugia is a village of some
hundred houses, and a place appointed for dischargeing of
such goods as come downe the river: the inhabitants are
Arabians. Not finding camels here, we were constrained
to unlade our goods, and hired an hundred asses to carie
our English merchandizes onely to New Babylon, over a
short desert; in crossing whereof we spent eighteen houres,
travelling by night and part of the morning, to avoid the
great heat.
f<r In this place, which we crossed over, stood the olde
mightie citie of Babylon, many olde ruines whereof are
easilie to be seene by daylight, which I, John Eldred, have
often beheld at my good leisure, having made three voy
ages betweene the new citie of Babylon and Aleppo, over
this desert. Here also are yet standing the ruines of the
olde tower of Babell, which, being upon a plaine ground,
seemeth a farre off very great; but the nearer you come to
it, the lesser and lesser it appeereth. Sundry times I have
gone thither to see it, and found the remnants yet standing,
above a quarter of a mile in compasse, and almost as high
as the stone-worke of Paule's steeple in London,—but it
sheweth much bigger.^ The brickes remaining in this
* " For about seven or eight miles from Bagdad, as men passe
from Felugia, a towne on Euphrates, whereon Old Babylon stood, to
this new citie on Tigris (a work of eighteene houres, and about forty
miles space) there is seen a ruinous shape, of a shapelesse heape and
building, in circuit less than a mile, about the height of the stone-