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kind of varnish over tlie colours, which had a heaiitiful effect. 

 The figures arc painted on a wliite (;round. At the end of this 

 corridor we descended ten steps, wliich I call the small stairs, 

 into another, seventeen feet two inches by ten feet five inches. 

 From this we entered a small chamber, twenty feet four inches 

 by thirteen feet eight inches, to which 1 gave the name of the 

 Room of Beauties; for it is adorned with the most beautiful 

 figures in basso relievo, like all the rest, and painted. When 

 standing in the centre of this chamber, the traveller is surrounded 

 by an assembly of E{;yptian gods and goddesses. Proceeding 

 further, we entered a large hall, twenty-seven feet nine inches by 

 tuenty-six feet ten inches. In this hall are two rows of square 

 pillars, three on each side of the entrance, forming a line with 

 the corridors. At each side of this hall is a small chamber : 

 that on the right is ten feet five inches by eight feet eight inches; 

 that on the left, ten feet five inches by eight feet nine inches and 

 a half. This hail I termed the Hall of Pillars; the little room 

 on the right, Isis' Room, as in it a large cow is painted, of 

 which I shall give a description hereafter; that on the left, the 

 Room of Mysteries, from the mysterious figures it exhibits. At 

 the end of this hall we entered a large saloon, with an arched 

 roof or ceiling, which is separated from the Hall of Pillars only 

 by a step ; so that the two may be reckoned one. The saloon 

 is thirty-one feet ten inches by twenty-seven feet. On the right 

 of the saloon is a small chamber without any thing in it, roughly 

 cut, as if unfinished, and without painting : on the left we en- 

 tered a chamber with two square pillars, twenty-five feet eight 

 inches by twenty-two feet ten inches. This I called the Side- 

 board Room, as it has a projection of three feet in form of a 

 sideboard all round, which was perhaps intended to contain the 

 articles necessary for the funeral ceremony. The pillars are 

 three feet four inches square, and the whole as beautifully painted 

 as the rest. At the end of the same room, and facing the Hall 

 of Pillars, we entered by a large door into another chamber with 

 four pillars, one of which is fallen down. This chamber is forty- 

 three feet four inches by seventeen feet six inches ; the pillars 

 three feet seven inches square. It is covered with white plaster, 

 where the rock did not cut smoothly, but there is no painting on 

 it. I named it the Bull's, or Apis' Room, as we fbund the car- 

 case of a bull in it, embalmed with asphaltum ; and also, scat- 

 tered in various places, an immense quantity of small wooden 

 figures of mummies six or eight inches long, and covered witli 

 a3| hiltum to preserve them. There were some other figures of 

 fine earth baked, coloured blue, and strongly varnished. On 

 each side of the two little rooms were some wooden statues 

 •landing erect, four feet high, with a circular hollow inside, as if 



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