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by a tremendous crash, and that they sought refuge by flight. 
The people were rich; their loss, in point of furniture, is not so 
considerable as in the superficies of the soil. 
The viliage is now a sort of central spot for pilgrimage to the 
whole of Bohemia; the curious flock hither from every quarter, 
to explore the effects of this phenomenon. It is impossible to 
form a just idea of it without inspection. 
EGYPT, 
The Prussian State Gazette contains the following extract of a 
letter from the Prussian Major-general Baron Minutoli, dated 
Cairo, April 13, 1821: 
“* T am, thank God, in good health, though we have had, for 
‘some days, a burning chamsin, which threatens general suffoca- 
tion, and gives to the coolest apartments a temperature of 28° or 
30° by Reaumur’s thermometer. This dangerous wind has a 
very bad effect, and promotes the eruption of the plague, which, 
for these three months past, has at times prevailed in Alexandria. 
Here only two persons have been attacked by it, but every body 
is apprehensive of the further spreading of this scourge of the 
East. I think like the inhabitants, Alla Hirnii (as God will), 
and go every day into the city, but avoid, as much as possible, 
coming in contact with the Arabs, who throng thestreets. To- 
morrow I shall take leave of the pacha, who is at his country 
house Schoubra; and shall set out in a few days for Jerusalem, 
by way of Damietta and Jaffa. 
“‘T have had the drawing of my pyramid finished, and shall 
publish it, with my Journal, in two plates. The internal con- 
struction is very remarkable, and may probably throw much light 
on these most interesting monuments. A few days ago, my 
workmen found the gilded skull, the feet, and the hands of a 
mummy ; and I am inclined to infer, that these remains, the only 
ones of their kind hitherto found, are those of the king entombed 
in thepyramid. I understand that other interesting objects were 
discovered: but the rapacious Arabs sold them to other persons ; 
which I regret the more, as they might have led to some know- 
ledge of the purpose of the pyramid. From the ground-plan, I 
am disposed to conclude, that its Ramisti Kabiren, which are 
not yet all opened, extend a great way, and lead to sepulchres or 
sanctuaries which lie beyond the pyramid. ‘This raised the idea, 
that the entrance to the celebrated labyrinth may, perhaps, be 
found in the neighbouring pyramids, In the inspection of my py- 
ramid I might easily be buried alive. But something must be 
ventured by him who will make conquests even in the domain of 
science, My pyramid has seven breaks instead of six, and is 
not a regular square. A very handsome sarcophagus, with hiero- 
T2 glyphies, 
