"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." [‎٢‎٢‎٧] (٤٧٤/٣٢٥)

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Baba, and are white, small, and oblong, very
luscious, but are said to want flavour, which, I
understand, is the general fault of the grapes here.
August §th. —Walked in the evening to the gar
den of the Haft Ten, or seven bodies, which is close
to the garden we inhabit, adjoining the mountain, or
rather, bare rock. We passed on our way the small
warden and convent of dervishes of the Tchehal Ten,
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or forty bodies, which adjoins the Haft Ten. The
latter is so called from containing the bodies of seven
holy men, about whom the guardian of the place
could tell us nothing more than that they were pecu
liarly venerated by the Nanakeli Koords. Many
other graves were about theirs. The court or
garden, which is small, is thickly set with old
cypress-trees, among which we noticed one very fine
old fir-tree. I have seen several others of the same
kind, though of inferior size, in the neighbouring
gardens, which proves that they succeed here.
The apartments consist of an open hall, supported
by two fine stone pillars in front, which they have
had the bad taste to daub over with paintings of
flower-pieces. There are also some small side-rooms;
but these quarters, though sometimes assigned to
travellers, cannot be agreeable, from their closeness,
and the funereal appearance of the court. The wind
was blowing through the cypress-trees, and made a
melancholy murmuring, like the distant noise of the
sea on a sandy beach.
The walls of the talar or open hall were bedaubed
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