"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." [‎٢‎٧‎٦] (٤٧٤/٤١٩)

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JOURNEY TO PERSEPOLIS.
There is to-day a guard stationed at the gates of
the city to prevent any more people from running
away. This is rather ungracious, when the Prince
himself has set them the example. All who now
present themselves at the gate to go out are driven
back with sticks.
After mid-day the disorder is said to have in
creased again. The mortality yesterday and the
day before is now said to have amounted to upwards
of a hundred each day. The principal line of the
disease is through the centre of the town lengthwise;
on each side of this zone it is not so bad. One
parish has hitherto escaped altogether ; and, what is
curious, not a single Jew is yet dead. It does not
attack children, and is particularly fatal to women.
September 22nd. —The cholera is still very bad ;
they reckon this the eighth day from its commence
ment. Eighteen persons died in the night, in
Mirza Ali Akber's parish alone. He says fully two
hundred died yesterday.
This morning all the people remaining in the town
left it en masse to pray for a cessation of this ter
rible visitation. Men, women, and children in im
mense crowds visited all the holy places about
Shirauz, shouting out " Allah ! Allah!" There was
something very line and very affecting in the voices
of such an immense and suffering multitude ascend
ing to heaven in earnest supplications.
September 23j"df.—They say that the disorder is
rather better to-day; God knows with what truth.
The most correct estimates of the mortality since the