"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." [‎٣‎٥] (٤٧٤/٦٢)

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the ancient Babylon, which is proved by the site,
being on the banks of Euphrates, by the fertility of
the adjacent lands, and by the ruins of magnificent
buildings, which abound for many miles round; but,
above all, by the remains of the Tower of Babel,
which to this day is called Nimrod's Tower. We
were curious to see these buildings, but finding that
no one would accompany us for fear of robbers, we
were compelled to give it up.
" The captain had again promised to provide us
with horses at this place, but he put us off again
with a thousand excuses. We were in great trouble
about it, when hearing, on the evening of the second
day, that a caravan of Persians had just arrived from
the tomb of Ali, on their way to Bagdad, we pro
vided ourselves with horses, and crossed the river
over the bridge of boats with the caravan that night."
The day after leaving Hillah they arrived in the
neighbourhood of Bagdad, and passed the remains
of several remarkable buildings." They entered the
city, and took up their abode with some Capuchin
friars, who received them " with their wonted ex
pressions of love and affection," and treated them
with the most unbounded hospitality.
But to return to the history of the remains of
Babylon, concerning which the Carmelite monk had
it not in his power to give us much information.
Another Roman Catholic missionary, le Pere Ema
nuel de St. Albert, at a later period visited the
solitary city, and describes the mass of ruins which
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