"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." [‎٢‎١] (٤٧٤/٩٦)

JOURNEY TO BABYLON.
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when they find themselves close pressed, they utter
miserable cries, entreating for mercy—but that the
hunters kill them, and eat their lower parts The
tchoadar had evidently not the slightest doubt of the
truth of his wonderful story.
I set my men to work exactly over the passage
called the Serdaub, with the hopes of laying as
much of it open as might lead to a probable con
jecture what it was originally destined for. In the
Serdaub, about four years ago, they found a great
number of marble fragments, and immediately after
wards a body enclosed in a case or coffin of mul
berry wood, completely dressed. I conversed with a
person who saw it—he was a respectable man from
Bagdad, and appeared not deficient in intelligence—
he told me it had on boots which were black and
reached above the knees, that the dress was a tight
or short one—that on getting it out, it separated into
two pieces, and that soon after exposure to the air,
both the body and the coffin crumbled into dust. I
found a small point or spike of brass wrought with
some care. I left my people at work, as they here
will have enough to employ them for several days.
I observed from the top of this mound the range
which we yesterday took for the city wall, I mean the
outer and large one. It had clearly the appearance
from this height of a boundary—its course was to the
south-east; and it must have come close to, or joined,
this tower, beyond which no traces of it are visible.
December \bth. —I rode out to the ruins, but
more in the direction of the river. The ruins com-