"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." [‎١‎٣] (٤٧٤/٨٨)

JOURNEY TO BABYLON.
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walls of which are very high and built with baked
bi ick and mortar. 1 hey are discernible for a consider
able distance, and run parallel to each other, the space
or street between being about fifteen feet wide. I am
of opinion that a great part of these structures were
built in the manner used at present in these parts,
viz., a quantity of small bricks, earth and rubbish
were rammed down in the centre, and built round
with bricks. At one part I saw something like a
door, but it was filled up with rubbish.
We next went to the tree which the Arabs call
Athele, and they maintain that it was a Babylonian
tree, left on purpose for Imam Ali to tie his horse
to. Near the Kasr we found a range of unburnt
biicks. The Kasr is about two hundred yards from
the street or passage. I here corrected the sketch I
made yesterday, and then rode to the village of
Mujelibe, which is situated in a flat to the north—
and surrounded by gardens. All this part of the
plain is traversed by canals of different ages, one of
which they were just forming, and near it was a
plantation of cotton. We crossed over these canals
and came to the great mound, called by Beauchamp
Makloube, and by the natives Mukelibe or Muje
libe, or Babel. This is by far the greatest mass of
the whole, and stands insulated. A canal called Neel
runs near it to the south, and on the north is a fur
ther appearance of ruins. This mound faces nearly
to the four cardinal points—the west face is the
most perfect in regard to building—there appears