^i^ Thyfical and Mijcellanebus 



r>&7 7perf /^-Outllde, at leaft, of all thefe Tjramids, is of the fame Nature 

 Mountah,^ attd Contexturc, hath the like Accidents and Appearances of 

 iTylrcan- Spars, Foifil Shells, 0>r^//i«^ Subitances ' &c. as are common 

 ^^"^"^' to the Aiountains οϊ Lyhia. ΐη like Manner Jofepjjs Well, 

 the Quarries of Moccat near Kairo, the Catacomhs of Sahara, 

 the Sphinx, and the Chambers, that are cut out of the natural 

 Rock, on the Eaft and Weft Side of thefe Tjramids , do all 

 of them difcover the fpecifick Marks and Charatterifticks of 

 the Tyramidal Stones, and, as far as I could perceive, were 

 not to be diftinguiilied from them. The Tyramidal Stones 

 therefore, were, in all Probability, taken from this Neigh- 

 bourhood ; nay perhaps they were thofe very Stones, that had 

 been dug away, to give the Sphinx and the Chambers, I have 

 mentioned, their proper Views and Elevations. 

 ihegreatv^- It may be farther obferved, that the Tyramids, efpecially 

 'αΓο/' ίΠύγ^ greateft, is not an intire Heap of hewn Stones; inafmuch 

 S/^^'^'as that Portion of it, which lyeth below the Horizontal 

 Seolion of the Entrance , may probably be no more than an 

 Incruftation of the natural Rock, upon which it is founded. 

 For, in advancing through the narrow Paflage, the natural 

 Rock is twice difcovered : the lower Chamber alfo, together 

 w4th the Well, (whofe Mouth lyeth upon a Level with it,) 

 appear to be of the fame ; whereby a confiderable Abatement 

 is to be made in fuch foreign Materials, as would have been 

 otherwife required in the building of this Pile. 

 AccovTwhc,, It is very furprizing, that the Tyramids, which from their 

 7hei% ^'"fii'ft Foundation, muft have been looked upon with Wonder 

 mids w,f ^j^(j Attention, iliould not have preferved a more certain 

 Mr a, and Tradition of the Time of their Foundations, or of 

 the Name of their Founders. Tliny ' reckons up a Number of 

 Authors, who have wrote of the Tyrnmids ; and all of them. 

 He tells us, difagree in the Accounts they give us of thofe 

 who built them. Cheop \ Chephrenes, and Mycerinus have been 



I Efpecially of fuch as ^/r^io calls petrified Lm?/i, telling us, that they were originally 

 the Food of the Workmen. Εκ >ap rSf ^.ατ^-τηί cme^'i vvif ■sre» tSv ΠvξctμΊJί>v kmtiu, iy toi-nif J** 

 (ueiaKiTiu 4»>|«=ϊτ« It, TJ'jo) it, ft4>4S« φctMe^J7ι• h'tois Λ', 19 ω! h τϋσμα οϊοκ ψικιτπςαν vsTt-^sj^M. Φατϊ <Γ' 

 ^λ/θ»θί)να< λ«'•4-αΐ'α ■? τίκ t5;c^0f«Vf.)V -Tfojiif • οίχ α;τ50/κ5 Λ' &C. Strab. GcO^V. 1.1 7. γ. ^^6. 2 Qui 

 de ijs (Pyranitdibus) fcripferunr, funt Herodotus, Eubemerus, Dims Sam'ius, Ai'ifta^oras, Dio- 

 nyfitis, /irtemidorus, Alexander Tolyhtftor, Butorides, Anttfilicncs, Demetrius, DemotiUs, Apion: 

 inter omncs eos non conftat a quibus fidix funt, jurtiifimo cafu oblitcratis tant^ vanitatiis 

 autoribiis. The I'lke Λ(0Μη we have hi Diodonis. nsei ί tSi- Oi.pa^iefoi' »^V oAwr «Λ' %t τοι? 

 iyyaelms K7T -^!^ Ίοΐί συ-^ξοφ-^Ζΐΐ anupavi^iaj.• o't ,aV ya ή( ere?s/p«fiiVOL/i βασι^Μ (Xe/zfuv, Kffipil)'. Mfitse^rsf) 

 if»m ai/wr, οι Λ 67ΐρ«ί Tivis. DM. 1. i. p. 41. 3 Diodorus (l.i . p. 39.) calls him Chemmls. 



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