"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." [‎٣‎٢] (٤٧٤/٥٩)

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the Tigris and Euphrates separate, and likewise of
arriving at Seleucia, all of which is quite unintelli
gible. He surely must have perceived that the two
rivers divide at Koorna, and the only Seleucia on
these rivers is not on the Euphrates, up which he
was sailing, but on the Tigris, about twenty-five
miles below Bagdad.
He goes on to say—" The heat was insupportable,
and for many hours of the day quite stupified us.
Though the nights tempered the burning heat, yet
we were then greatly molested by musquitoes, which
are much larger than those we have in Italy. On
the morning of the 24th we arrived at Salussar, in
the evening at Marmer, both of them miserable
places, composed of huts built with mats and reeds,
but abounding in provisions. The following day we
arrived at Arge, where the jurisdiction of Bagdad*
begins. Here we halted for two days, and our suf
fering from the heat was so great that some of the
passengers fell ill.f The water of the Euphrates is
very relaxing, and easily brings on dysentery, the
sole remedy for which is burnt wine.
" On the 27th we found ourselves surrounded by
an open desert, and the weather was intensely hot.
We heard lions, tormented by the heat, roaring on
all sides, there being great numbers of them in these
woods. Having posted our guards at the coming
* The writer always calls this city by the name of Babylon.
t And they were cured by a strange remedy—an infusion of
tobacco in a glass of brandy, which produced a profuse perspiration,
and thus relieved them.