"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." [‎٢‎٠] (٤٧٤/٩٥)

20 JOURNEY TO BABYLON.
It appears extraordinary that instead of digging a
new canal they do not repair that which is found
ready to their hand. The canal called Neel is an
instance of this. There is an old one, and a more
modern one, close to it.
I went with ten men with pickaxes and shovels to
make experiments on the Mujelihe; they dug into
the heaps on the top, and found layers of burnt
bricks, with inscriptions laid in mortar. A kind of
parapet of unburnt bricks appears to have sur
rounded the whole. On the western face the mud
bricks were not only laid on reeds, but mixed up
with them. In the northern face, where a part is
also still standing, the bricks are not mixed up with
reeds, but only laid on layers of them ; here I found
some beams of the date tree, specimens of which I
brought away. The part of the mud wall standing
on the west front is not thick ; that on the northern
side is more so, but none of them are of any con
siderable thickness. On the north front, the height
of the whole pile to the top of the parapet is 132 feet.
The south-east angle is higher. I dug into several
other parts of the top, and found only earth and
rubbish. In one hole I found some quills of a por
cupine, which animal the natives eat. The tchoadar
who accompanied me yesterday, came with us again
to-day. He told me that in the desert to the west
animals are found, the upper part of which resembles
perfectly a man, and the lower parts a sheep—that
the Arabs hunt them with greyhounds, and that