"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." [‎٢‎١‎٨] (٤٧٤/٣١٦)

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JOURNEY TO PERSEPOLIS.
called Peer i Zen, and the pass before us Kutal Peri
i Zen, many parts of which are fine; and they say
that the sea is discoverable from the summits above us.
We had fortunately brought our supplies with us
from Kauzeroon, for nothing whatever was to be had
here.
July 31^.—The weather delightfully cool. We
find that the peak from which the sea is to be seen
is not the one behind the caravanserai, but one much
higher, which is yet some way off. We marched at
ten minutes past six, continuing the ascent without
interruption, which now became steeper but not preci
pitous, nor did the road wind much. There were
some fine hawthorn and oak-trees, and a little above
the caravanserai a fine spring of water running
across the road. At eight we were nearly at the
summit, and had a fine view of the country we had
left and of the Lake Perishoon. The whole ascent
of the Peri i Zen from the bottom occupies three
hours, and is prettily wooded. Many much higher
summits appeared around us, especially one to the
left of the road, which is, I believe, the same from
which the sea may be seen. We now continued
pretty level for a short time between the two sum
mits, among woods of very large hawthorn-trees, and
oaks of the small-leaved kind. I noticed in one
place that a kind ot wall of rock had been com
pletely cut down into a narrow gap or passage, evi
dently by a torrent. There had most likely been a
lake between these two summits, which had in this