"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." [‎٢‎٦] (٤٧٤/١٠١)

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JOURNEY TO BABYLON.
ditch round the town. The gardens are very ex
tensive. The Euphrates is now rising, hut it will
fall again shortly, and rise in the spring, when it
will continue longer at its height than the Tigris
does, and will overflow the low parts of the sur
rounding plain, including the valleys among the
ruins.
December Ylth. —Last night the men whom I
had employed to dig into the grand mound came and
informed me they had discovered a skeleton in a
coffin. They brought me a specimen of the bones
and of the coffin. The bones were astonishingly
sound. They brought me also a brass bird, which,
from being hollow on the other side, seems to have
been fixed to the coffin as an ornament; besides this
was another brass ornament, which must have been
suspended to something; and a round stone which
they found under the head of the coffin. I resolved
to go and examine the place this morning, and like
wise retouch some of my sketches. We accordingly
set off after breakfast, but the day was too boisterous
and dusty, the wind being southerly, to attempt draw
ing. I therefore rode directly to the great mound, and
found that my workmen had opened a passage down
into the Serdaub. We descended with a mashallor
flambeau^ and found some narrow low windings—
those that were most perfect were flat roofed. Two
kinds of bricks are found here, burnt and unburnt,
with layers of straw, and also bitumen; the burnt
bricks being laid in the latter. These cells or pas-