"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." [‎٢‎١‎٤] (٤٧٤/٣١٢)

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last, when they found we were resolute in keeping
our station at the garden, they condescended after
incessant talking to go after our baggage, part of
which was brought to us about two o'clock in the
morning, when we got to bed. The Persians are
the most noisy, immoveable, and dilatory people I
ever met with.
Kauzeroon is under the east line of hills, and
has been a large town, but is now ruinous and
desolate, and, with the exception of the governor's
house, is a very dismal-looking place. The ram
parts were destroyed by Jaafer Khan Zend, the
governor of Shirauz, on account of rebellion. The
population is said to be about 10,000 souls.
July 30$.—It was nine o'clock this morning before
we could procure the remainder of our baggage from
the town, and we experienced the same dilatoriness
and terrible talking we had been subjected to last
night before we could obtain any of our supplies.
We here lose the turban, and the black cap com
mences. We have still the date-tree, that har
binger of heat. Kauzeroon pays to government
20,000 tomauns annually. The staple produce is
tobacco, and the so-much-esteemed Shirauz tobacco
grows in this district. The inhabitants are reckoned
hospitable to strangers. They speak a very curious
dialect, which contains many words of old Persian.
There is a famous Zor Khaneh or wrestling-house
here, and most of the inhabitants of the town are
Pehlivans, or wrestlers. This is the burial place