"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." [‎٢‎١‎٥] (٤٧٤/٣١٣)

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of the Shahzadeh Hamza, the son of Imaum Mousa,*
who was defeated and killed here in an insurrection
against the Caliph.
Our muleteers, being all Kauzeroon men, were
very loth to start; and, what was still more extra
ordinary, they wanted to make me pay for their
staying. However, neither staying nor paying
suited my views, and so with a great deal of trouble
we sot them off at seven. We skirted the ruins of
D
Kauzeroon, which are very considerable, and kept
near the hills, passing many water-channels and ex
tensive ruins of villages. We had an alarm of
thieves, and one of our guides saw the light of a
matchlock in the distance, which made us keep near
the baggage for its protection. Two hour's slow
march brought us to a causeway of about 400 yards,
over a very wet morass, which was full of shrubs,
and seemed to extend far on the right and in front,
where it terminated in a lake. At the end of the
causeway the cliffs retiring formed a sharp, high,
rocky promontory and a bay, the area of which
ascends gradually over a stony road, to the foot of
the so-much-talked-of Kutal i Aushanek, .also called
the Dokhtar. Arrived at the foot of the rock, the
road seemed to terminate ; the black cliff, which had
before appeared not so formidable, now hung per
pendicularly beetling over our heads, and seemed to
bar all further progress. Dante's rock of Purgatory
* The seventh Imaum of the family of Ali, supposed to have been
poisoned by the Caliph Haroun A1 Rashid in the year 183 of the
Hejira.— E d.