"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." [‎٢] (٤٧٤/٧٧)

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JOURNEY TO BABYLON.
our rate of travelling. Kiahya Khan, which bore
N. 12 E., was built by the celebrated Ahmed
Kiahya of Bagdad; but being so near the town, it is
not much frequented. Our road now lay S. 20 W.,
over a perfectly level country ; and in about half an
hour it took the direction of S. 5 W. At noon we
arrived at Assad Khan, after a march of three hours
and three quarters, or about eleven miles. These
khans are built in quadrangular forms, with niches
all round them for the accommodation of travellers,
and a room or two near the gateway. In the centre
of the court is a raised plinth, on which travel
lers sleep in the summer; and in the best khans
there is an inner range of stabling all round the
quadrangle. Over the gate is an open room, and
there is always a small mud village round the khan.
We only halted for a short time, in order to take
some refreshment, and then proceeded on our jour
ney. From a mound near Assad Khan the ruin of
Aggher Koof, or Nimrod's Tower, bore N. 26 E*
* Bagdad, Saturday, JanuaryAth, 1812.—I went with a party to see
Agger Koof, or Nimrod's Tower, as it is vulgarly called, a ruin of very
great antiquity, and very much of the same character as those of Baby
lon. It stands on the west side of the Tigris, about six miles from Bag
dad. The general resemblance of it with the Birs Nemroud struck me
forcibly. Like that ruin, it has a mound of rubbish on the east side.
The mass of the building is of unhurnt bricks, mixed up with chopped
reeds, and layers of reeds between every fifth or sixth layer of bricks.
Fragments of burnt bricks are found in the base, which is
composed of the decayed bricks and rubhish, together with the dust
blown up against it by the high wind. The mass is of an irregular
shape, and about half way up it is an aperture, apparently of no great
extent. Square holes are visible in the sides, as at the Birs. The