"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." [‎١‎٤‎٠] (٤٧٤/٢٢٨)

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qualified to do so; and I purposely abstained from
any remarks which did not tend to throw light on
my account of the ruins, and stimulate the attention
without misleading the judgment of those who ap
plied themselves to the subject. But, having hitherto
sufficiently separated observation from opinion, I now
venture to lay before the public the result of better
information and more matured opinions. I have
been more particularly induced to enter into a dis
cussion on the correspondence between the accounts
of the ancient historians and the ruins I visited, by
a paper written by Major Rennell,* professedly " to
vindicate the truth and consistency of ancient his
tory, as well as his own account of Babylon in the
Geography of Herodotus," as he " conceives my
former statements to be at variance with commonly
received opinions." Diffident as 1 am in opposing
my ideas to such an authority, I feel myself called
upon to state that I cannot coincide with Major Ren
nell, either in his interpretation of the ancient
writers, or in his deductions from the actual appear
ance of the ruins. I shall therefore make his Re
marks the basis of the present dissertation, as they
appear to me to contain all that can be said in favour
of the old theory, with many additional particulars;
and also because this method will afford me an op-
* Remarks on the Topography of Ancier/t Babylon, suggested by
the recent observations and discoveries of Claudius James Rich,
Esq., communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by Major Rennell;
—from the Archecologia, London, 1816, pp. 22.