"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." [‎٢‎٨‎٥] (٤٧٤/٤٢٨)

NO. II.] APPENDIX.
meeting the king, who came up to them, sword-in-hand, at
the head of those that were in the way to succour him,
they killed him, and put all those that attended him to the
sword. The first thing the conquerors did afterwards was
to thank the gods for having at last punished that impious
king. These words are Xenophon's, and are very worthy
of attention, as they so perfectly agree with what the Scrip
tures have recorded of the impious Belshazzar.
" In the time of Alexander the Great the river had quitted
its ordinary channel, by reason of the outlets and canals
which Cyrus had made, and of which we have already
given an account. These outlets, being badly stopped up,
had occasioned a great inundation in the country. Alex
ander, designing to fix the seat of his empire at Babylon,
projected the bringing back of the Euphrates into its
natural and former channel, and had actually set his men
to work. But the Almighty, who watched over the fulfil
ling of His prophecy, and who had declared he would
destroy even to the very remains and footsteps of Babylon
(' I will cut off from Babylon the name and remnant' * ),
defeated this enterprise by the death of Alexander, which
happened soon after."
R ollin's Ancient History, vol. 11.
No. 2.
(Referred to in p. 55 ot the first Memoir.)
« He (Alexander) had, moreover, a navy of ships at
Babylon, as Aristobulns tells us. which were partly brought
from the Persiau Sea by the rl.er Euphrate, aud partly
* Isaiah xiv. 22.