"سرد لرحلة إلى موقع مدينة بابل في ١٨١١، طُبعت الآن لأول مرة: مذكرات على الأطلال؛ مع نقوش من الخرائط المدبئية للمؤلف: ملاحظات على طبوغرافية بابل القديمة،بقلم الرائد رينيل؛ في إشارة إلى المذكرات: مذكرات ثانية على الأطلال؛ في إشارة إلى ملاحظات الرائد رينيل: مع سرد لرحلة إلى برسبوليس: طُبعت الآن لأول مرة، مع كتابات مسمارية نسخت في برسبوليس ولم تُنشر من قبل: كتبها الراحل كلوديوس جيمس ريتش، المحترم، المقيم البريطاني السابق لشركة الهند الشرقية في بغداد. حررته أرملته." [‎٧] (٤٧٤/١٨)

preface.
use in the progress which appears, at length,
to be making in deciphering this hitherto unknown
character, both by some learned foreigners*, and by
Major Rawlinson, an English officer in Persia, who
thinks that he has deciphered an inscription of great
length, recording the conquest of Darius the
Younger.
In a work of this nature the writer has necessarily
been much indebted to others, and is happy to have
this opportunity of acknowledging her obligations to
Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart.; the Hon. Mounstuart
Elphinstone; General Briggs ; Colonel Chesney ;
and William Erskine, Esq.; who have most kindly
afforded her such assistance and information as she
requested of them.
Not ting-hill, January llth, 1839.
* The labours of Raske, Grotefend, and St. Martin, have
been some time before the public. Since that time the German
traveller Schulz made copies of some inscriptions near Hamadan,
which were submitted to M. Burnouf, a French savant, who is
equally skilled in Greek, Sanscrit, and Zend; and he has written an
essay on Schulz's inscription ; and, by an examination with other
inscriptions, he has framed a Zend alphabet of the cuneiform
character.
Lassen, a countryman of Burnouf, and who is likewise a good
Sanscrit and Zend scholar, has also read and translated these tablets;
and his alphabet is said not to differ much from Burnouf's. Burnouf
has printed a work, in two volumes, called " Commentaries on the
Ye^na," on the same subject.