"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." [‎٤] (٤٧٤/٧٩)

4
JOURNEY TO BABYLON.
mounds, and, probably, at some very remote period
there was a town here.
We arrived at Iskenderia at a quarter past five,
after a march of about fifteen miles. It is a large
and handsome khan, built by Mahommed Hussein
Khan, the present minister to the king of Persia,
near the old one, which is now quite deserted. The
bricks of which this new khan was built were dug
up on the spot.
December\0th. —We left Iskenderia at ten
minutes before eight in the morning; soon after leav
ing which, we observed the remains of an old canal,
running in a slanting direction with the road, at
about two miles distance*. At half-past ten, being
two hours and twenty minutes, or about seven miles
and a half from Iskenderia, we arrived at a very in
different khan, called Hajee Suleiman, from the name
of the person who built it.
We met here with a large caravan of camels
loaded with rice, and going to Bagdad. I have
often observed that camels have a very disagreeable
smell, and that horses are naturally afraid of them.
I mention this circumstance because some persons
have asserted that camels have no smell, except when
* After a march of an hour and ten minutes I took the following
sights:
Hajee Suleiman Khan bore S. 5 W.;
Musseib, on the banks of the Euphrates, was in sight, at an
angle of 60°, bearing S. 80 W.;
Iskenderia bore N. 10 W. ;
The village of Naseria, S. 60 W.