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The ckcfi vot would be very Tcrupulous to deny to the human Body. Now 

 'Tclffitof if thisCheft was not intended for a Coffin, (and indeed i^^ero- 

 ^*'"''^'• dotus ■ tells us that Cheops s Tomb was ui the Vaults below) we 

 have fo far a prefumptive Argument, that neither could the Tf- 

 ramid itfelf have taken the Name of a Sepulchre from it. Nay 

 provided even that Cheops and others had been buried within the 

 Precinas of This or any other of xhtTyramids, yet ftill this 

 was no more than what was pradifed in other Temples % and 

 therefore would not deftroy the principal Ufe and Defign for 

 which they were ereaed. And indeed, I am apt to think, that 

 there are few , who attentively confider the outward Figure 

 of thefe Piles ; the Strufture and Contrivance of the feveral 

 Apartments in the Infide of the Greateft ; together with the 

 ample Provifion , that was made on each Side of it, for the 

 Reception, as may be fuppofed, of the Priefts ; but will con- 

 clude, that the Egyptians intended the Latter for one of the 

 Places, as all of them were to be the Objefts at leaft, of their 

 Worftiip and Devotion. 

 The Anthnts Stvobo \ as far as I know, is the only Perfon among the 

 SX/i^e Antients, who feems to have been acquainted with the narrow 

 pyrimfd?'' Eutrauce, that condufts us into the Great Tyramid. We have 

 only a fmall Afcent up to it at prefent ; and, as it may be pre- 

 fumed , that the Situation of it in his Time % was nearly 

 half Way up the Tyramid^ we are fo far inftrufted, what ex- 

 traordinary Encroachments have been fince made, by the Sands, 

 ill that Diredion. However if there had been a PalTage left 

 open, fo early, into th'isTjyramid \ if this PalTage was not con- 

 tinued direftly forward, in the fame Angle of Defcent, quite 

 down to the fubterraneous Cavities, (as the many Breaches and 

 Irregularities in the Architefture of that Part of it, where we firil 

 begin to afcend,will give us Room to fufped ;) it is much, that no 

 particular Account ihould have been left us, by antient Hiilo- 

 rians % of the feveral Apartments that have been fince defcribed 



I ο«7ϊ yiCTTif/, (fpeaking oi the Pyramids o( Cheplnenes,) ΙινΜμΛτα. v3ri>J>', Ϊτϊ L• η Νείλκ .Γ/«νξ 

 XxH es- awTjIr, «jcTfe \s tw ϊτίξ^ν, ίΐκ«- ^ΜΜ^^μτ,μίν^ Si άνλωγ®• \<m vmov ^ξζέί/ι-, ei- τ;ι dtjiiy ?ayw κΗ<3« 

 Xeorw. Herod. Eur. 5- 127. 2 Εθα^Λϊ- (Aprien) e/ τησι mTfu^ji -ηφ^σι• al Λ' «V/ h τω }(ω -ί ASixyeUH. 

 Id. ibid. ?. 169. Ετα?» (Amafis) iv τίσ/ 7τ<?η<7< τ??* iy ίΖ Ί(ω. Herod. Thai. fio. ^ Qui <ΛΙ, »Λ' 

 ■β iJi nnf σιαττήτομαχ, «,ζ^ί "^ ^ dujh ίξίλί>ξ4., fi^f φί» Ινρμαί Ινομαζομΐ*>!{, 7a?ot;f Λ' γ^νομί,^ί, mi^j w 

 TO?Kf vi£>( ^ιΧΛίλχμίνπί. * iv T? viZ ί Αθ^^? e» Aaelojyi, τί<(& t^v hmak. * 77 </iu Εε/χΟόν/®- ; i-^th ra 

 νώ -ί Πολίάί©' MUAuTu i Clem. 'Alex. Cohortat. ad Genres, p. 39. 3 Εχ« ^ ir i4« μΐσ^ι ^raf τ5» 

 ^A^upSf λίθοκ ίζΛΐ(ί:ημον άρθέντ®• </ΐ meiy^ Ri ηολίΛ μίχα •fSmKnf. Strab. \. 1/. ρ.ΐΐόΐ. 4 V'id. 

 Not. utfupra. j PHii) indeed mentions the Well, (Vid.Not.fi. p.417.) but noother Place. 



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