"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." [‎٢‎٦‎٥] (٤٧٤/٤٠٨)

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mascus, &c. Indeed the bazar is the only thing
well worth seeing.*
I must say I think the people of Shirauz sur
prisingly insolent. Much as I have travelled, both
* The following are some of the principal articles of the commeice
of Shirauz:— ^ ,.
Imports from Bus hire.
Cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, pepper, China-root, sugar-candy,
cassia, sal-ammoniac, tin, ebony, ivory, sandal-wood, cochineal, mdigo,
porcelaine, glass-ware, steel, cocoa-nuts, broken glass for the glass
houses here, incense, aloe-wood, iron, lead, cotton (sometimes), cam
phor, chalk, quicksilver, stuffs, Aghabani muslins, dimity, handker
chiefs, silk and cotton, Bengal chintz, Lucknow ditto, long cloths,
palampores, tcharshaffs or sheets, kaitan (a kind of thin linen),
kinkobs of all sorts, China satins, China crapes, tea, Muscat limes,
Bussora abas. ^ ,
European Goods.
16 kinds of cloth, casimeer, shalloon, velvet, velveteen, plush,
blankets, chintzes from all parts of Europe, printed muslms long
cloth, Irish linen, muslins, jaconot,
kinds, powder, shot, flints, door-locks, knives a nd .^ssars.coarse
paper, razors, prints and engravings, glass, pain g , '
candles, otter of roses imported from Constantinople through Bussoia.
Exports t
Wine " rose-water, otter of roses in small quantities for In la,
assafceti'da, dried fruits, silk, goats' hair, saffron, caramaman woo ,
sehkhisht (a kind of manna for medicine), almonds, nuts, spices,
horses, orpiment, madder, tobacco.^ are sent to Ispahan,
The goods brought from us ire Resht, Mazenderaun,
Teheraun, Casbin, Tabreez, Hamad , e ' are 2500 mu i es con-
Yezd, Kerman, Meshed, Khorassan. .. The revenues of
stantly employed between Shira ^ a " the cleM revenue, out of
Shirauz — 800,000 tomans annually ar
which there is generally paid to the ^ annually) and
From the lake 3000 ass-loads of salt are ^ ^ ^ a
more might be collecte'l f neces^a y. ^ The lake belongs to
piastre am, each being o 4
Aga Baba Khan. , at shirauz, of which
a 360,000 quarts of wine are ann ^ Bushire, &c. All the
40,000 go to India, 10,000 to Bagdad, Bussora,
rest is used at Shirauz. nmduced. The best come from
b 120,000 batmans are annual y P There are 350 estates
Kazwin and Jaroon, all from the Ghermaseer.
or farms of tobacco cultivated.
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