"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." [‎١‎٥] (٤٧٤/٩٠)

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very mucb. The corners of this mound appear to
have been crowned with turrets. The opposite side
of the river is quite flat, without the smallest appear
ance of ruins. Musseib was visible in the horizon,
as was the Towareij, a mound to the N.W., and the
Birs Nemroud to the S.W. At the foot of this
mound, between seventy and a hundred yards from
it, to the north and east, are vestiges of buildings.
This mound is exactly 550 yards from the river, by
actual measurement. I took sketches of the four
faces of it.
On the mound on the bank of the river, near the
village of Jumjuma, some of our party discovered
fragments of urns with human bones, at the depth of
forty feet below the surface, close to the river.
We took some refreshments on the great mound
we had been exploring, and then rode from it
towards the south-east, where we found a large
mound of loose earth, and fragments of bricks.
This must have been a considerable structure, and
yet it is certain, having been dug into in various
directions, that it was composed of no other mate
rials. It might have been cased with materials of a
superior nature. Near this are the smaller mounds,
and on the west a large open space between this and
the grand mounds of Amran Ibn Ali and the Kasr,
which was very much impregnated with nitre. A
few yards to the eastward of this, running nearly
north and south, with a trifling variation to the east,
is a long mound of no considerable height, but con-