"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." [‎١‎٩‎٨] (٤٧٤/٢٩٦)

198 JOURNEY TO PERSEPOLIS.
not to be neglected under these circumstances—and
we therefore consented to a separation, necessary,
but extremely painful to us both. Dr. Bell had the
goodness to accompany her.
At night on the 26th the weather was rather
calm, and I remarked a curious phenomenon. My
bed stood on an open terrace, and lay nearly east
and west. The north side of it was completely
wetted with dew to about half the breadth of the
bed, as if water had been poured on it, while the
southern side remained dry. There were two pillows,
the one on the north side was quite wet, that on the
south was dry. In bringing my barometer from
Bussora, a considerable quantity of the mercury
escaped, so that I cannot make any barometrical ob
servations here, which I should very much wish to do.
July Istf.—A salute from a vessel belonging to
the governor of the town announced the feast of the
Beiram, which is not celebrated with much splen
dour here. In my walk this evening I observed the
boys playing at a game exactly resembling one I had
seen played by boys in England.
The thermometer was yesterday 93°, the wind
was S.W., and the day was prodigiously oppressive.
To-day the thermometer is 96°, with what the sailors
call a stiff N.W. wind, and the air is light and
pleasant. They say the N.W. wind always raises
the thermometer, but renders the climate more
agreeable. It is a drying wind, but not so heated
as at Bagdad. During calms or southerly airs the