"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." [‎١‎٢‎١] (٤٧٤/٢٠٩)

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that have been found there, indicating the residence
of persons of a superior class. (See the Memoir,
pages 65 and 66).* This, however, is to be under
stood to relate to the mound itself, and not to the
ruin named Kasr, concerning which more will be
said in the sequel.
Now this mound is situated at a full mile to the
southward of the Mujelibe ; and although the
course of the river in this quarter is between the
S.S.E. and S.E. by S.j" (in which direction one
may conclude it was conducted through the artificial
cut said to have been made by Semiramis), yet still
the mound in question could not have been less than
three-fourths of a mile below the point opposite to
the Mujelibe, the supposed Tower of Belus. Conse
quently, there being no other remains whatsoever in
that quarter, the statement of Herodotus, respecting
the relative positions of the temple and palace, must
be erroneous ; and that of Diodorus, probably more
exact, when he places the temple and tower in the
centre, and the palaces in some other situation, where
* M. de Beauchamp says, "Black stones, with inscriptions en
graved on them, are also met with" there. One of these, a species of
jasper, so well polished and so distinctly engraved, that it printed like
a copper-plate, was sent home by Sir Harford Jones. It is in the
possession of Sir Hugh Inglis.
f The present course of the Euphrates through the ruins is south
wardly. It is not known whether Mr. Rich allowed the variation of
the magnetic needle in his Plan. This may be about 9 or 10 degrees
westerly in that quarter. So that if it be not allowed, the north of
the Plan must be reckoned N. 9^° W.