"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." [‎٨‎٠] (٤٧٤/١٦٤)

80 MEMOIR ON THE RUINS
A1 Hheimar which is a curious ruin, as
bearing, on a smaller scale, some resemblance to the
Birs Nemroud. The base is a heap of rubbish, on
the top of which is a mass of red brick-work,
between each layer of which is a curious white sub
stance, which pulverises on the least touch. I have
not yet visited A1 Hheimar, but those who have
conjecture, from the grain of the white substance or
powder, seemingly lying in filaments, that it must
have originally been layers of reeds. I have seen a
specimen adhering to a piece of brick, but not suffi
ciently well preserved to enable me to form any
decisive judgment; but I cannot imagine how
reeds, under any circumstances, could be brought
to assume such an appearance ; and besides, they
are never found in buildings composed, as this is, of
burnt brick.*
To these ruins I add one, which, though not in
the same direction, bears such strong characteristics
of a Babylonian origin, that it would be improper
to omit a description of it in this place : I mean
Akerkouf or, as it is more generally called,
Nimrod s Tower, for the inhabitants of these parts
are as fond of attributing every vestige of antiquity
to Nimrod, as those of Egypt are to Pharaoh. It is
situated ten miles to the N. W. of Bagdad, and is a
thick mass of unburnt brick-work of an irregular
shape, rising out of a base of rubbish; there is a
layer of reeds between every fifth or sixth (for the
* See Appendix, No. 9.