"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." [‎٢‎٨‎٠] (٤٧٤/٤٢٣)

280 JOURNEY TO PERSEPOLIS.
which is handsome and commodious, and seems cal
culated for defence. The elevation gives the view
from it, over the garden and as far as the town,
a fine effect. The garden is planted with tchenars,
or plane-trees, in the usual Oriental way, with narrow
walks crammed full of trees, which are obliged to be
clipped into brooms, instead of having a few trees,
and allowing them to expand to their natural growth.
From the old woman who showed the house I heard
all the particulars of the death of the Shahzadeh's
mother, and the inhuman flight of her son.
October 1^.—The mortality yesterday was very
considerable, amounting to eighty. There has been
a little recurrence of heat, with southerly winds and
calms, which may be the occasion of it.
October 2nd. —Aga Baba Khan called on me
this morning. A very pleasant man, and less over
powering than the Persians usually are. He esti
mates the total mortality up to this day at 5600, A
holy Seyid, who came from Beibahoon to write
charms to prevent the people taking the cholera,
and who has made a considerable sum of money by
this traffic within the last few days, caught the
disease himself yesterday, and died of it this morning.*
* See Rich's Koordistan, vol. ii. p. 236.