"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." [‎٦‎٦] (٤٧٤/١٤٦)

MEMOIR ON THE RUINS
been cleared nearly to the foundations, but the inter
nal spaces formed by them are yet filled with rubbish,
in some parts almost to their summit. One part of
the wall has been split into three parts, and over
thrown as if by an earthquake ; some detached walls
of the same kind, standing at different distances, show
what remains to have been only a small part of the
original fabric ; indeed it appears that the passage in
the ravine, together with the wall which crosses its
upper end, were connected with it. There are some
hollows underneath, in which several persons have
lost their lives; so that no one will now venture into
them, and their entrances have now become choked
up with rubbish. Near this ruin is a heap of rub
bish, the sides of which are curiously streaked by the
alternation of its materials, the chief part of which,
it is probable, was unburnt brick, of which I found
a small quantity in the neighbourhood, but no reeds
were discoverable in the interstices. There are two
paths near this ruin, made by the workmen, who
carry down their bricks to the river side, whence
they are transported by boats to Hillah ; and a little
to the N.N.E. of it is the famous tree which the na
tives call Athelc, and maintain to have been flourish
ing in ancient Babylon, from the destruction of
which, they say, God purposely preserved it, that it
might afford Ali a convenient place to tie up his
horse after the battle of Hillah ! It stands on a kind
of ridge, and nothing more than one side of its trunk
remains (by which it appears to have been of con-