"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." [‎٢‎٣‎٥] (٤٧٤/٣٣٣)

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end of this ruined town, near the centre of which I
observed portals of very large stones, one column still
standing, and remains of others scattered all about;
besides which I remarked that there were ruins on
the outside of the ditch ; and, from the nature of the
ground, it is difficult to say where they terminate.
A man with us, named Sari Bey, who was of the
Turkish tribe called Nefer, told me that this was
Istakhar, once the capital of the province of Pars,
He said also that his tribesmen find quantities of
copper arrow-heads all about among the hills.
Under the hills opposite this ruined town lay the
village of Hagiabad.
We journeyed through the valley in a diagonal
direction towards the east*, crossed the little river,
and, about twenty minutes after seven, we halted to
refresh, and to allow the baggage to get on. At a
quarter past eight we mounted again; the wind was
from the east, and rather warm, the night, too, being
rather cloudy. After continuing for a little way in
an easterly direction, we rounded the end of the
Nakshi Rustum range of hills, and turned up to
the north-west, and into a valley which runs into
the larger one we had just quitted. It there had
been a road over the mountain from above the
village of Hagiabad, the distance would have been
abridged by perhaps more than half.
We now crossed the river, which was in this place
* The valley runs south east.