"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." [‎٦‎٣] (٤٧٤/١٤١)

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difficulty of deciphering the original design of this
mound, as in search of them the workmen pierce into
it in every direction, hollowing out deep ravines and
pits, and throwing up the rubbish in heaps on the
surface. In some places they have bored into the
solid mass, forming winding caverns, and subter
ranean passages, wliich, from their being left with
out adequate support, frequently bury the workmen
in the rubbish. In all these excavations, walls of
burnt brick, laid in lime mortar of a very good
quality, are seen; and in addition to the substances
generally strewed on the surfaces of all these mounds,
we here find fragments of alabaster vessels, fine
earthen-ware, marble, and great quantities of var
nished tiles, the glazing and colouring of which
are surprisingly fresh. In a hollow near the southern
part I found a sepulchral urn of earthen-ware,
which had been broken in digging, and near it
lay some human bones, which pulverised with the
touch.
To be more particular in my description of this
mound, not more than two hundred yards from its
northern extremity is a ravine (G), hollowed out by
those who dig for bricks, in length near a hundred
yards, and thirty feet wide by forty or fifty deep.
On one side of it a few yards of wall remain stand
ing, the face of which is very clean and perfect, and
it appears to have been the front of some building.
The opposite side is so confused a mass of rubbish,
that it should seem the ravine had been worked