"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." [‎١‎٩‎٧] (٤٧٤/٢٩٥)

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with prodigious copiousness : no bad effects, how
ever, follow from sleeping perfectly exposed to it,
which doubtless proceeds from its being exhalations
from the sea merely, and not corrupted by any
vegetable matter.
All around Bushire is a dismal burnt brown flat,
except at the distance of about four miles to the
S. and E., where there is a line of date-trees.
The summer here is not unhealthy, but in the
spring intermittent fevers are said to prevail, and
further inland they are very common.
The surf at night, when there is a calm, makes a
beautiful appearance, breaking in lines of phosphoric
light along the shore. We have now a continued
gale from the N.W. to W., which is rather a rarity
at this season, the Shemaul* generally finishing
before this, but hitherto this year they have scarcely
had any of this wind.
On the 26th the Volunteer sailed for Bombay.
As my stay here was uncertain, I was anxious to
get Mrs. Rich into a better climate, as the fever she
had been attacked with at Bagdad still hung about
her; and her being surprised by the heats here
might have been attended with very bad conse
quences to her health. The Volunteer, from the
goodness of the ship, and the kindness of Captain
and Mrs. Waterman, afforded an occasion that was
* Or -N. W. wind, which generally blows down the Persian Gulf
for forty days, from the beginning of J une to the end of July. E d.