"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." [‎٤‎٧] (٤٧٤/١٢٥)

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of irrigation. It is confined between two very high
mounds, and on the northern one, near the road, is a
small ruin, called Sheikh Shouhar, which is visible
from afar. Before arriving at the Naher Malcha, and
half way between Assad Khan and the next stage, is
a small canal, over which is a bridge of one arch, now
ruinous. Some time ago, a large lion came regular
ly every evening from the banks of the Euphrates,
and took his stand on this bridge, to the terror of the
traveller; he was at last shot by a Zobeide Arab.
Till very lately this canal was filled from the Eu
phrates ; and the desert in the vicinity was, in conse
quence, cultivated; but the proprietors, finding the
exactions of the Government to be more than their
industry could answer, were obliged to abandon the
spot. The next khan, distant upwards of seven
miles, is Bir-iunus, or Jonas's Well, called by the
Turks Orta Khan, from its being erroneously counted
the half of the distance between Bagdad and Hillah.
It is only remarkable for a deep well, with a descent
by steps to the water, and the tomb of a Turkish
saint. Fine hawks, of the species called
used in hunting the antelope, are caught here. Near
three miles from this, the road to Kerbela, by the
bridge of Musseib on the Euphrates, branches off
from the Hillah road, in the direction of S. 67 W.
Iskenderia is about seven miles from Bir-iunus,
and is a large handsome khan, built lately at the ex
pense of Mohammed Hussein Khan, Emin-eddoulah
to the king of Persia, near a former much inferior